Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:32:56 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: BelletJr@aol.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connect(2) behavior with unreacheable hosts Message-ID: <20030412083256.GA28378@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <109.225ca595.2bc723f2@aol.com> References: <109.225ca595.2bc723f2@aol.com>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:45:54PM -0400, BelletJr@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? David.help
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