In article <874ps6ozeg.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
>christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>> We should not add a timeout to drop connections. Instead we should provide
>> a way for the user to drop them, like tcpdrop on OpenBSD and the patch in
>>
>> http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~dheeraj/netbsd.html
>>
>> I don't particularly like the sysctl interface, but I don't have a better
>> suggestion. In my opinion we should add it.
>
>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.

christos