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Re: Treatment of server-side RSTs

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Treatment of server-side RSTs
From: Ian G Batten <I.G.Batten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:23:36 +0100
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Ian G Batten wrote:

> I've just started trying to put my news server behind LVS.  This is so
> that I can move it to a new machine without waiting for DNS propagation
> times more than anything else.
> 
> My long-standing (last recompiled in 1996!) news server is now giving
> unexpected socket closes when talking to trn, at least, and probably
> other clients.
> 
> Closer examination reveals that INN times out idle connections after
> 30s, and sends an RST.  I confess to being out of my depth, tracing
> through Salz and Wall code, but rather than closing the connection down,
> trn appears to continue to send and get responses when talking direct to
> a realserver.

What I furthermore don't understand is that since I'm using VS/DR, the
ipvs machine doesn't see the RST sent from the server to the client
anyway.  I confess myself mystified.

ian
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