Port Unreachable

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199906172349.JAA16829 at bsdi.dv.isc.org>,
 <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>> netstat shows that the destination port (dp) is not open. I was just 
>> wondering what it is in bind that causes it to look up a closed port, and 
>> how to rectify it.

It probably happens when your server takes too long to respond, so the
client has given up waiting.  By the time your response reaches the client,
it has closed the port that was listening for the response.

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