Fixing openssh to avoid occasional spurious connection failures
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Nov 2 13:49:00 GMT 2001
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:14:55PM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:06:25 +0100
> > From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> >
> > Don't think so. I think we could find a workaround by assigning
> > local socket numbers in another range (>32768 or so).
>
> This will not solve the problem.
>
> If you read my test program, you will see that I am calling bind() on
> the socket before connect(), and the bind() succeeds *** even though
> the connect subsequently fails with WSAEADDRINUSE ***. So there's no
> way to detect that winsock has assigned an in-use port to the socket
> until it's too late.
Can you give me a pointer to the KB article describing that
winsock bug?
Corinna
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