Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:00:31 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, net@freebsd.org, kris@freebsd.org Subject: Re: select fails to return incoming connect on FreeBSD-4.3 Message-ID: <20010627220031.B10008@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <20010627145814.L86970-100000@achilles.silby.com> References: <20010627145249.A10028@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> <20010627145814.L86970-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > Has anyone had a chance to look at this and figure out what the fix > > might be? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Glenn Johnson > > It's a feature, not a bug. :) > > Since everyone's on vacation and we can't switch generation schemes right > now, I've e-mailed kris and asked if he objects to me adding a sysctl > which switches between the current and old generation schemes. If he says > it's ok, I'll commit it soon and those affected will be able to use the > old generation scheme. I don't object; while the security provided by the new scheme is nice, breaking TIME_WAIT assassination is a serious bug in some environments, and there should be a way to work around it now. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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