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Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:33:30 -0500
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 ?
Current thread:
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers, (continued)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Owen DeLong (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Cyril Bouthors (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Jon Lewis (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Mark Andrews (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Kyrian (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Kyrian (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers William Allen Simpson (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Jean-Francois Mezei (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Matthew Palmer (Dec 07)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 07)