On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:17:48PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <874ps6ozeg.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
> Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >
> >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.

Can we bring them into a state where it always returns EHOSTUNREACH?
That is an error a daemon is expected to deal with and the logic
equivalent for many of this cases.

Joerg