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Re: Problem shows up with netdate

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Nov 10 15:22:34 1995

From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: farleysc@cs.purdue.edu (Sean Christopher Farley)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:08:59 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951109032948.23068A-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> from "Sean Christopher Farley" at Nov 9, 95 03:36:01 am

> feature). Commenting out this entry forces netdate to use UDP for the
> nameserver queries. It's probably only a workaround and does not fix
> the real problem but on the other hand I see no reason why netdate
> shouldn't use UDP for nameserver queries.
> 
> > And the big question is why did it cause the kernel to lock up instead of

tcp_sendmsg is buggy, unix_recvmsg is buggy in 1.3.37. I've got fixes for
both in my 1.3.37+patches but cannot build 1.3.38 so am waiting to see if
1.3.39 compiles. I've also fixed the hang trying to mount SOSS file systems
in 1.3.3x, merged the ipfw TOS fixes and ANK's rather nice routing lookup
and cache code.

Alan

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