From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 17 1:50: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A2D37B41C for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0H9o1f90004; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201170950.g0H9o1f90004@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman 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, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message