Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Message-ID: <200201170950.g0H9o1f90004@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:44:00 +0200
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:07:28PM +1100, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
>
> /usr/bin/finger supports T/TCP, and this support may be disabled with the
> -T option. The way the T/TCP support is implemented in `finger' causes
> strange error messages ("read: Connection refused") and makes it take
> longer than usual to give these errors on what the source code terms
> "broken hosts".
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> Use net.inet.tcp.rfc1644 sysctl to determine whether T/TCP has been enabled.
> Imply the -T option if it has.
>
Hmm, doesn't a connection degenerates into standard TCP connection
when net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0?
Cheers,
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