The following reply was made to PR general/3289; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TLOSAP <new-httpd@apache.org> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/3289: repeated connects kill the server (fwd) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:54:10 +0100 (CET) On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Marc Slemko wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > Hmm; when trying this from an NT box with a serial wire connected to it > > rather than a ethernetcard, it seems to me that it is the NT's stack which > > gets overwhelmed. I get a 'dead' server apperanve on NT, but the actual > > server still lives on. (Server is just Apache 1.2 on a x486 freebsd 2.1 > > box). I cannot quite reproduce using the network card. My gues would be > > that due to latency, whatever, the handshake takes to long on the modem > > link, it needs bits of buffers kept, and finally fills some crucial > > buffer. > > Does Ctrl-Alt-T show the number of active connections maxed out in > Netscape? If you try to telnet to the server manually from the Not quite > same box does it work? If you exit and restart Netscape does it work? But any other connect to that IP failes. As does a restart of netscape; only a reboot seems to solve it. While from another machine, apache apears as alive as ever. So either I cannot reproduce it properly or it really is an NT network stack issue. Shrug. > I am not going to play games with this person just because they refuse to > give any contact info yet expect us to help them. It takes 2 minutes to > get an account at any one of dozens of free email services. +1. Dw.
