Subject: Re: Trouble Running Cern Httpd and gopher servers under NetBSD-1.1
To: Charles Hannum <mycroft@deshaw.com>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@demon.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/27/1995 07:34:42
> 
> 
> In article <199512260426.UAA21747@ns.sasquatch.com>
> lburns@sasquatch.com (Len Burns) writes:
> 
>    When I upgraded to 1.1 I noticed a strange error.
>    The first time a client connects to the server the server sends the
>    file without any problem.  It may do so on the next request as well,
>    but ieventually the client receives a message saying unexpected network
>    error and the request is not serviced.
> 
> This sounds like a symptom of a FPU-related bug that slipped into the
> 1.1 release.  I'll be making an `official' patch for this (and a few
> other problems) RSN.  Meanwhile, the attached fix should solve the
> problem for you.  Sorry for the inconvenience.
> 

I'm inclined to agree as it was httpd that we noticed this on, as well as 
sendmail, if you run sendmail as a inetd process esp.

Regards,
Neil.
-- 
Neil J. McRae.                                            Demon Internet
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