steve@cdp.UUCP (12/18/90)
re: getting CLOSED TCP connections in Interactive 2.2
Yes. We have the same problem. Spoke to an interactive tecnician
at a trade show, and he said it was a known bug (in the socket interface
implementation), and that there was no intention of issuing a patch
(this was 5 weeks ago). It's a very serious bug -- so serious
that it has forced us into the decision of dropping the interactive
platform altogether (our organization depends on providing reliable
service over the internet).
Steve Fram
Technical Director
Institute for Global Communications
{uunet, pyramid, ...}!cdp!stevesrc@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (12/20/90)
steve@cdp.UUCP writes: >Spoke to an interactive tecnician >at a trade show, and he said it was a known bug (in the socket interface >implementation), and that there was no intention of issuing a patch >(this was 5 weeks ago). It's a very serious bug -- so serious >that it has forced us into the decision of dropping the interactive >platform altogether (our organization depends on providing reliable >service over the internet). in the posting from isc about a week ago: [...] SSU.4a Update - TCP/ip Update SSU.4b Update - NFS Update [...] Addendum: SSU.4a/SSU.4b and V2.2.1 (full release) are due soon, not shipping yet. .. i guess these will fix your problem then. -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 public source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home
scott@cdp.UUCP (12/27/90)
We've heard that the TCP/IP update has a fix to the socket library. But we stil haven't received it yet. -scott
steve@cdp.UUCP (01/06/91)
> steve@cdp.UUCP writes: > >Spoke to an interactive tecnician > >at a trade show, and he said it was a known bug (in the socket interface > >implementation), and that there was no intention of issuing a patch > >(this was 5 weeks ago). It's a very serious bug -- so serious > >that it has forced us into the decision of dropping the interactive > >platform altogether (our organization depends on providing reliable > >service over the internet). > > Heiko Blume writes: > in the posting from isc about a week ago: > [...] > SSU.4a Update - TCP/ip Update > SSU.4b Update - NFS Update > [...] > Addendum: SSU.4a/SSU.4b and V2.2.1 (full release) are due > soon, not shipping yet. > ... > > i guess these will fix your problem then. I have applies the SSU.4a patch to my interactive TCP/IP, and I still experience telnet and rlogin connections hanging in the CLOSED state. c.f., I am running Interactive 2.0.2, not 2.2 yet, so I am hoping that the problem will go away when we upgrade operating systems; however, given our previous experience with interactive products, I am not very optimistic... Steve Fram Technical Director Institute For Global Communicaitons (IGC) cdp!steve