TCP/IP daemon quits sporadically

[Karl Denninger]

In article <28221 at bigtex.cactus.org> james at bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>In <1990Jan24.185408.2157 at ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl at mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
>wrote:
>
>> What >has< happened is that smail3 (sendmail replacement) will die
>> occasionally with a protocol error.  It's sitting in background, and all of
>> a sudden it stops working.  Killing and restarting it fixes the problem; I'm
>> not sure this is a 386/ix problem or one we have here locally :-)
>
>sendmail has a problem with a "protocol error" too.  The problem is
>that sometimes the socket just stops working: you can't accept any
>more connections.  The "solution" is to close the socket, and get a
>brand new one.  I suspect that this particular bug may be sendmail/tcp
>specific though - the way sendmail interacts with ISC TCP/IP results
>in memory getting clobbered (as has been pointed out, you must
>explicitly set the buffer for an fdopen()'d TCP socket).

I have made that change to smail3; I will let the net know if that takes
care of the problem or not...

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