hung while trying to contact host

[Ian C. Sison]

Does this bug affect pre4 as well?


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Guus Sliepen wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:57:49PM -0600, ebina1 wrote:
>
> > During any and all of those three minute periods when B is trying
> > to connect to C, all communication between A and B stops.  After the
> > connect fails and B waits packets flow between A and B again until
> > the next time B tries to contact C and they stop again.
> >
> > This makes the setup very hard to use when C is down.
> > Is this "correct" behavior or a bug?
>
> It's a bug. The connect() system call is blocking, thereby stopping tinc
> from doing anything until either the connection to C is established or a
> long timeout is reached.
>
> It's just fixed in the CVS version. I guess we'll try to get out a new
> release ASAP because more people have encountered this bug.
>
>

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