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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP hangs talking to Solaris 2.5.1
Date: 15 May 1997 16:35:51 GMT
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eric (eric@pancreas.erols.com) wrote:


: Has anyone seen a problem where TCP connections between FreeBSD and Solaris
: machines hang?  I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1, and under circumstances which I
: haven't entirely identified, connections between the two systems will hang
: until the process owning it on either end is killed. In this case it's a
: POP proxy server on freebsd talking to an actual POP server on Solaris. 

  I may be wrong, but what TCP connections in general?  FTP and telnet? Do
you get a connection or does it hang when trying to connect?

You can try killing the nscd program on Solaris if its running.  I know
from experience that ncsd can be very nice or very horrible.  

Karl


: 						eric