On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:32:56AM +0100, David Malone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:45:54PM -0400, BelletJr_at_aol.com wrote: > > Why does not connect(2) return any error when trying to connect to a host > > unreachable because of an infinite loop in the routes? No time-out occurs and > > the value 0 is returned by connect(2). > > My test was done with TCP/IPv4. > > I've tried connecting to a host which is unreachable in both 4.X > and 5.X and in both cases connect returns an error with "Operation > timed out". I wonder if you could post your source code and/or a > tcpdump of what's actually sent and recieved over the network while > this is happening? The problem seems to be in the handling of the ICMP unreach-time-exceeded. See the PR I filed: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=50839 I posted to -net because the problem is common to both stable and current. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.Received on Sat Apr 12 2003 - 08:05:33 UTC
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