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From: thomson@uthub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson)
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Subject: Re: A possible network bug in Sun unix?
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Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 14:59:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 22 14:59:31 1986
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I submitted a fix to this problem to net.bugs.4bsd in July, 1985.
The TCP connection establishment protocol is supposed to recover from
these 'half-open' connections, but a problem with the 4.2BSD implementation
prevented it from working properly.
4.3 has apparently adopted the same fix I proposed, although because of
interaction with other BSD TCP bugs I no longer use it in its original
form.  Presumably, later SUN distributions made a similar fix.
-- 
		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
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