Subject: What does it mean when a TCP session is in state CLOSING?
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/02/1998 10:15:30 
	Hello.  I have a mail server machine which has been up 178 days
or so and which handles about 100,000 messages a day.  I just discovered a
number of TCP connections that seem to be permenantly in state CLOSING.
What is the definition of state CLOSING and what causes these connections
to get stuck forever?
	This is running 1.2G sources of about September 1997.  Any 
explanations would be greatly appreciated.
-Brian