[plug] more mailman madness
Cameron Patrick
cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Jun 17 18:33:51 WST 2004
Shayne O'Neill wrote:
| Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
| tcp 0 0 localhost:1967 localhost:smtp TIME_WAIT
FWIW, connections in a TIME_WAIT state mean that the connection has
recently been closed but the kernel doesn't want to reuse that port
number just yet to avoid confusing other hosts. In your case it'd be
from the gazillions[1] of messages that your machine is generating and
sending to itself.
Cameron.
[1] I believe this is the correct technical term.
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