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Re: rwhod: Connection refused
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Apr 15 00:57:47 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: phil@tazenda.demon.co.uk (Philip Blundell)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 03:27:46 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960412200356.2061A-100000@ermintrude.disaster.area> from "Philip Blundell" at Apr 12, 96 08:09:33 pm
> Now, as far as I can see, it looks as through recvfrom() is returning
> ECONNREFUSED instead of EINTR when it's interrupted by the alarm.
> Certainly it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for recvfrom() to ever
> return ECONNREFUSED normally. Am I doing something obviously wrong, and
> has anybody else seen this?
You have a broken machine (probably SunOS) replying to your broadcast
with an ICMP unreachable port.
Alan
