tinc dies after some days/weekes of normal activity

[Kostadin Galabov]

If I remember correct there was a fix for this problem in CVS version a long
time ago. I never had it as I use pre3. Try to compile CVS version

----- Original Message -----
From: "Flynn Marquardt" <flynn at onestepahead.de>
To: <tinc at nl.linux.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 20:59
Subject: tinc dies after some days/weekes of normal activity


> Hello,
>
> I successfully use tinc for one year in a configuration with several
> subnets (about 5-7 subnets) and one main server. Sometimes tinc dies
> with the error message:
>
> Error while waiting for input: Bad file descriptor
>
> If it happens, this happens immediately, when one subnet has
> disconnected. tinc (on the main server) tries then to disconnect all
> currently connected subnets and while disconnecting the last active
> subnet the above error message appears.
>
> It seems, that subnets that connect and disconnect often (dial-in
> subnets), can force this problem faster, but not I cannot reproduce it
> with a known sequence of commands or connections.
>
> After restarting tinc on the main server all subnets reconnects after
> some time and all is fine.
>
> I use the tinc version of debian woody (this means 1.0-pre4 with some
> changes of the cvs-version).
>
> What can be done to resolve this problem?
>
> Flynn
>
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