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Date:      Thu, 12 May 2005 19:30:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Matt Ruzicka <matt@frii.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Outbound TCP issue, potentially related to'FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem [REVISED]'
Message-ID:  <20050512192936.V730@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0505121627400.66727@elara.frii.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0505121627400.66727@elara.frii.com>

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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Matt Ruzicka wrote:

> A couple days after we patched our systems, we started to receive a number
> of reports of mysql connection errors when our patched FreeBSD 4.9 web
> servers were trying to connect to our mysql server, which lives on a
> separate FreeBSD machine.

Although you just saw this behavior now, it sounds like you're describing 
a problem that sometimes occurs due to port randomization.  Can you try 
setting sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized=0 to see if that affects 
anything?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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