Subject: Re: kern/35196: sockets should die if addresses vanish
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/07/2006 21:45:03
The following reply was made to PR kern/35196; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35196: sockets should die if addresses vanish
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:41:34 +0100
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > spoofed, then yes it's an acceptable solution.
>
> That is one problem. The bigger problem is processes that don't know
> that they should be doing something to re-open a socket because their
> original connection is no longer actually real.
Sure but I'm not sure this would be fixed by closing connections.
This issues also happens for UDP sockets.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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