[158664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Thu Dec 6 11:33:43 2012
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:33:30 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnO+KKNYxZBOG3F9qpERGMPZ+T8BvYaXNQVqfnVMGCHN7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Question:
If a TCP connection is left hanging and continues to hoard the port for
some time before it times out, shouldn't the work to be focused on
finding out why the connection is not properly closed instead of trying
to support a greater number of hung connections waiting to time out ?
