Subject: Re: Kill socket for certain routes
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/08/2006 17:31:24
christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>>This would be a very nice general capability, though "socketdrop" (one
>>might want to drop UDP sockets bound to the vanished address etc.)
>>might be a more general capability.
>
> The UDP bound problem probably needs fixing in the daemons because
> some of them might not be prepared to deal with this kind of failure.

That's fine -- build the tool, and if it doesn't work in some
instances that is okay. Better to let the user have a general capability.

Perry