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Re: in.rlogind stuffing up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Apr 19 05:49:17 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 05:18:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
cc: Linux-Net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960419025836.5687B-100000@news>
On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Doug Ledford wrote:
> have the option of connecting to our shell server. This is done by
> performing an rlogin -8 -E shell. Now, for the problem. This works fine
> most of the time. But, if a modem disconnects unexpectedly, it can leave
> the in.rlogind on shell in a waiting state. In this case, if I check a
> netstat -a on shell, I will usually find a single tcp connection on the
> rlogin port that has a large amount of information in the transmit and
> recieve queue, but no process on the remote machine is listening. In
> this case, further rlogins from the modem server fail to connect with a
> "connection refused" error message. As soon as I kill the offending
I have a similar sounding setup and have never seen this happen. This is
just a guess...but have you tried setting hup_notify with
setserial/setrocket on your dialup tty's? Back when I set things up, it
looked like a good idea, so I did it.
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