tinc dies after some days/weekes of normal activity

[Guus Sliepen]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:25:04AM -0700, Jamie Briggs wrote:

> This sounds exaclty like a problem we had running pre1.  The problem was
> that socket filedescriptors were not being closed.  After tinc had run
> long enough and enough connections had come and gone the maximum file
> descriptor limit was reached and the bad filedescriptor messages started
> appearing.

That's not the problem. In Flynn's case it has something to do with
dial-up accounts which go down and go back up with a different IP
address, thereby failing to close old TCP connections in an orderly
fashion.

Pre5 should fix this, but it might take a while before we release it...

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.warande.net>
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