The following reply was made to PR kern/35196; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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, 07 Dec 2006 22:33:02 -0500

 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
 > 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.
 
 There we will have to disagree. I don't think it is reasonable to
 leave around "connections to nowhere". If you know that a connection
 can't be of any further use and that the packets it could send will
 never get anywhere and can't be replied to, I think there is something
 wrong with leaving things be.
 
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