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
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