Info needed on TCPIP Sockets during crashes

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1990Dec10.230703.22550 at usenet@kadsma> fuller at kadsma.kodak.COM (Bill Fuller) writes:
>  Is there some sort of procedure to detect a crashed host versus a busy
>host?

If you try to write to it after it has crashed, you'll get an error when it
finally comes back up.

Until it comes back up, there's no way to distinguish a dead host from one
whose network connector has fallen out, or one that's really, really,
really slow to respond.

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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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