CLOSE_WAIT not closing in Bind 9.2.0

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a2iub6$svj at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Pete Ehlke  <pde at ehlke.net> wrote:
>At any rate, I don't recall you telling us what OS you run, but
>http://www.sean.de/Solaris/tune.html used to be of some use on Solaris
>web servers, but tuning a web server and tuning a name server are *vastly* 
>different enterprises, and even at that, really affecting CLOSE_WAIT (as
>opposed to TIME_WAIT) is *hard*.

CLOSE_WAIT isn't something you can tune away.  In this case, it suggests a
bug in the server -- it isn't closing the connection after it's done
sending the response.

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