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From: hubcap@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: perpetual connection
Message-ID: <694@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 14:14:48 EST
Article-I.D.: hubcap.694
Posted: Thu Nov 19 14:14:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 16:01:53 EST
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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I wonder what's going on here?

I am not sure how long this has been going on, but I have noticed the 
following connection between my machine and utah-arpa-gw.arpa for the 
last few days: (edited output of "netstat -a" follows...)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Active connections (including servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
                         .
                         .
                         .
tcp        0      0  hubcap.clemson.e.2462  utah-arpa-gw.arp.telne FIN_WAIT_2
                         .
                         .
                         .
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note: sometimes the state is "ESTABLISHED", other times, FIN_WAIT_2...

I was curious at first when I saw it, but there's lots of users here, and
its none of my business where they telnet to... then I noticed that this
connection was still present immediately after a reboot.

So, to make a long story short, this connection has been here constantly 
for at least a week (probably longer).

Does anyone want to hazard a guess as to what the deal might be?

thanks...

Mike Marshall      hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu        ...!hubcap!hubcap