Re: Lost connections

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:10:47PM -0000, Donald Fraser wrote:
> 1) How as an administrator can I tell which connections are lost
> and which are not so I can shut down the appropriate processes?

The dead connection should get cleaned up when the TCP timeout
happens, as I understand it.

> 2) Is there a way of connecting to the server with client
> applications that can avoid this situation. That is can the client
> software do something extra when connecting such as additional
> parameters, keep alive socket options... to avoid this scenario?

Not as far as I know.  You could lower your TCP timeout, I guess, but
I believe the TCP/IP authorities say this is a Bad Idea.

A

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