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From: ian@hpopd.HP.COM (Ian Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: TCP Port state FIN_WAIT_1 : what's that ?
Message-ID: <9390001@hpopd.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 90 14:52:53 GMT
Organization: HP PWD, Pinewood UK.
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I sometimes get a hang for a long while (say an hour) when I have a client
close a sockets connection.  The server (SCO Unix 3.2) shows the TCP port state
according to 'netstat -i' as being FIN_WAIT_1 before the connection eventually
dies completely.  The server program has gone away at the time the connection
close was requested by the client, so I guess it's just at the TCP level that
the connection is almost closed but not quite.

Anyone any ideas ?

Ian Watson
ian@hpopd.HP.COM     hplabs!hpopd!ian