Sockets stuck in FIN_WAIT1 (2.2.14)

[Riley Williams]

Hi Mike.

 >>> I don't know what the problem is here but it is driving me
 >>> absolutely crazy to the extreme.

 >>> My kernel is 2.2.14, and this happened with 2.2.13 as well.
 >>> FTP connections to ANY site in the redhat.com domain
 >>> (ftp.redhat.com, updates.redhat.com, contrib.redhat.com) as well
 >>> as metalab.unc.edu, all HANG in FIN_WAIT1 after attempting to
 >>> download a file.

 >> Can you try 193.63.255.4 and advise whether it has problems with
 >> that system as well? I get incredibly slow links to it under
 >> Linux, often timing out, but under WinNT4 it's rock solid !!!

 > I just tried it.  I went into a random dir, and downloaded a
 > single small file (README).  It worked no prob.  I then tried
 > tagging 2 files and downloading.  Both downloaded ok, with no
 > hanging problems...  This is using 2.2.14, and midnight
 > commander:

 > mc-4.5.40-2

 > All seemed ok, and it was pretty quick too.

That rules that out then - obviously there's a hardware problem
somewhere between the University of Aberdeen in SCotland and the
SunSITE UK mirror.

 > My only complaint was all the symlinks!  Ouch!  Every dir I went
 > in was about 99% symlinks...  Must be CDROM's I take it...

As stated above, that's the SunSITE-UK mirror site, so I would doubt
there's that many CD's. However, the whole site is NFS mountable as
193.63.255.4:/public within the UK, and possibly outside as well.

Note that if you look up the SunSITE.Org.UK domain name, you could get
any of about a dozen different IP addresses, but it was specifically
the one quoted that I wanted checking as that's the only one that can
be accessed from within JA.NET !!!

Best wishes from Riley.

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