On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, John Evans wrote:
>Mar 3 20:05:02 :: New connection from [017.255.020.000]
>process_input: about to lose connection: No route to host
>Mar 3 20:05:02 :: Losing descriptor without char.
[..]
>I'm not sure if they are even valid IPs, but I checked the logs about 2
>minutes after these connection attempts were made. I tried to ping those
>IPs, and got nothing back at all. nslookup shows nothing on the IPs
>either (but that doesn't mean a whole lot.)
It's a Linux 'feature'.
>Any ideas about what may be happening?
If the client disconnects between the accept() and the structure is read,
you will get random (and usually invalid) IP addresses.
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