A possible network bug in Sun unix?

[Brian Thomson]

I submitted a fix to this problem to net.bugs.4bsd in July, 1985.
The TCP connection establishment protocol is supposed to recover from
these 'half-open' connections, but a problem with the 4.2BSD implementation
prevented it from working properly.
4.3 has apparently adopted the same fix I proposed, although because of
interaction with other BSD TCP bugs I no longer use it in its original
form.  Presumably, later SUN distributions made a similar fix.
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		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
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