Re: Strange tcpsvd behaviour

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote:
> I'm running a fnord/tcpsvd web server, and sometimes ("sometimes"! Don't 
> you just hate that!) people with Internet Explorer can't connect. 
> Switching to tcpserver (ucspi-tcp) helps, but I would really like to run 
> a clean Debian system.
> 
> I logged my attempts with tethereal (libpcap format). The first two logs 
> show IE first failing, then succeeding. This is from the same client 
> machine, just a few minutes later.

> When IE fails, it fails consistently on every attempt. The third log 
> shows FireFox succeeding at a time when IE would fail. This also from 
> the same client machine.

Unfortunately the packet dumps don't tell me that much.  If you run
tcpsvd with -vv, is there anything abnormal or a warning in the log
(please make sure tcpsvd's stderr is redirected to stdout)?  If not,
can you please reproduce while running tcpsvd and the fnord child
under strace?, e.g.

 2>&1 strace -f -o/tmp/trace tcpsvd -vvufnord 0 80 fnord

Thanks, Gerrit.