Re: (ITS#4585) slapd-search generates TIME_WAIT connections increasingly

[hyc@symas.com]

Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
> At 11:53 PM 6/13/2006, roland_scholz@securecomputing.com wrote:
>   
>> The problem with the TIME_WAITs can be reproduced on Debian
>> 3.1 as well,
>>     
>
> As I noted before, it is quite normal for a socket to be in
> a TIME_WAIT state.  It certainly not indicative of a bug
> in OpenLDAP Software.
>   
Indeed, it's been a requirement of the TCP protocol since the beginning 
(see RFC793 section 3.5, or see RFC1122 section  4.2.2.13).

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