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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 15:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stavros Patiniotis <stavros@esc.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netstat
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905191515070.9085-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.02.9905180950110.14228-100000@bang.esc.net.au>

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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Stavros Patiniotis wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 May 1999, Stavros Patiniotis wrote:
> > 
> > > I seem to have a lot of connections in the CLOSING state for my
> > > proxy server.  Examining the netstat output shows that there are alot of
> > > IP addresses in the closing state, that haven't been used for over three
> > > weeks. (ie they belong to an old analog access server that was taken
> > > offline).  
> > 
> > You'll have to restart to clear these out.  Was that old thing a NT box by
> > chance?  Windows has a bad habit of not shutting down TCP connections
> > properly; just ask Terry Lambert. :)
> 
> Actually, I doubt NT has ever run on these IP's.  Its was/is an old
> dialup IP subnet.  
> 

Were the dialup clients Windows?

Doug White                               
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