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Date:      Mon, 19 May 1997 13:04:17 +0100 (BST)
From:      Developer <dev@flevel.co.uk>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FIN_WAIT_2 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970519130248.1321A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199705191139.EAA02861@implode.root.com>

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On Mon, 19 May 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >Does anyone know if Freebsd times out FIN_WAIT_2's.. if so what is the
> >timeout and what date was this put into the kernel?
> 
>    There have been a variety of timer changes over the past two years which
> should catch cases >= CLOSING. Specifically, the persist timer is set on
> connections >= CLOSING, so connections in FIN_WAIT_2 should be timed out by
> that timer at the very least. My vague recollection is that a different timer
> kills it before that, however.

Thanks for the information. It seems from testing on one of our machines
that the timeout may be around 5 mins. It's unfortunate that apache seems
to have no way to detect that the user has hit stop other than just
leaving the conntion in FIN_WAIT_2 until the kernel times it out.

Regards,

Trefor S.





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