From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 29 3: 1:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (www.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64B937B41C for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eugen@localhost) by www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBTB0w702783; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:00:58 +0700 (KRAT) (envelope-from eugen) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:00:57 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange behavour of stock ftpd in STABLE: ports exhausion? Message-ID: <20011229180057.A2500@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <20011229170326.A98378@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20011229214112.A3183@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011229214112.A3183@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:41:12PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:41:12PM +1100, Tim J. Robbins wrote: > > So, it can download 49 files in a row then server says > > 425 Can't open passive connection: can't assign requested address > > If client does not break control connection, waits a little and > > starts to download the rest of files, it can download next 49 files and so on. > Perhaps the sockets aren't really closed, and are in one of the WAIT > states instead - check netstat. Can't check just now, will check later. Well, this seems to be another DoS possibility, isn't it? Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message