Thanks to Tom Crummey <tom@ee.ucl.ac.uk> for the answer. this seems to be known Solairs IP issue fixed in patch 112902-07. I checked the readme file for the patch and sure enough the bug description says: Problem Description: 4749268 connect() to localhost fails when SO_DONTROUTE is set 4784039 connect() to `hostname` fails if SO_DONTROUTE is set Mohamed~ Tom Crummey wrote: >Hello, > >Have you got patch 112902-07? > >There is a bug in Solaris 8 and 9 which causes this. It bit us badly >until the patch came out. > >Another workaround is to turn off ip forwarding. > >Tom. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri May 9 10:27:09 2003
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