[2508] in linux-net channel archive
Re: rwhod: Connection refused
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wieger Opmeer)
Mon Apr 15 12:25:52 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:49:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Wieger Opmeer <wieger@cal44a034.student.utwente.nl>
To: Philip Blundell <phil@tazenda.demon.co.uk>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604150227.DAA03808@snowcrash.cymru.net>
On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
>
Ultrix 4.0 and maybe earlier version does do the same thing. It was fixed
in Ultrix 4.1. (Ultrix 4.1 is from 1990.)
Wieger Opmeer
