Re: the opposite of DCD (dead connection detection)??

From: Ben <benalvey_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:55:08 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <852c42f6-6989-488f-a032-4681eefec367@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>


On Feb 7, 5:27 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 1:08 pm, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > After passing on the above mentioned note id to our AIX admin she
> > thought that our tests might not have tested the correct scenario
> > after applying the patch. It was the same patch that she already
> > applied but a different description that led her to believe that it
> > only patches the client end.
>
> > I created some connections with our patched test server as the client
> > side and this morning I come in to find that the connections did not
> > die. So I think we have found the culprit.
>
> Excellent!
>
> Now if someone would just explain to me how one of the popular
> methodologies would have gotten here, rather than me searching for "12
> hours" on metalink and making a long shot guess :-)
>
> jg
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go figure. lol.

our sys admin had found that patch already but we didn't think it worked. After reading the description from that note though, it clued her into it only patching the client side. Received on Fri Feb 08 2008 - 06:55:08 CST

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