On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:55:32 -0800, Jason wrote:
>Active Internet connections (servers and established)
>Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
>tcp 0 0 10.0.0.1:pop3 10.0.0.2:1829 TIME_WAIT
>
>Whats up with this? I set it to run from inetd, then I made a connection and
>I get an error from netscape, and this is the output from netstat -ta....
That's normal. When you close a socket, it goes into the TIME_WAIT
state for 4 minutes. This prevents a socket from getting reused too
soon on a high-latency connection, and having some packets from a new
connection misinterpreted as late packets from an old connection.
Meanwhile, don't use Netscape for this level of debugging, use telnet.
It tests for a much simpler condition, and lets you see what bytes are
going across the wire. Simply connecting to qpopper with telnet should
get you a banner, so you don't even need to know the POP3 protocol to
see if it's working.
Ken
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