Christian Biere wrote:

 > It's a bug, though:
 >
 > " 53 ECONNABORTED Software caused connection abort. A connection 
abort > was caused internal to your host machine."
 >
 > This isn't a fatal error and shouldn't cause the parent (server)
 > process to quit. I don't really know what causes ECONNABORTED. I
 > see it seldom and I guess it's related to ipf.

I think it happens when the client closes the connection before the 
server has a chance to do the accept(). A portscan could certainly do this.

Mike

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Michael South
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