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Sockets stuck in SYN_RECV filling up the accept queue...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Janes)
Mon Sep 18 21:12:17 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:45:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Simon Janes <guru@ncm.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I am fighting with a lousy TCP/IP WINSOCK package that has developed a
very bad bug. (Core Internet connect (Run away! Run away!. you get the
idea)).
It botches the connection and fills up the accept-queue until no more
connections can be started.
Does Linux ever expire and flush these dead connections, and if it does,
which version of the kernel implements this?
This has real good/bad potential for a method of denial-of-service
attacks. (I don't know how other stacks react under the same conditions...)
--
Simon Janes
NCM
