From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.0.7-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: This program exposes a Linux bug where you can actually get connected to yourself when trying to connect to a server on the local host. Compile this program with "g++ -o sample sample.C" Pick a port number >= 32768 that's currently not in use (verify that "netstat -a 2> /dev/null | grep portNumber" produces no output). Run "sample [portNumber]" Briefly, it will report that it's connected and print netstat output showing a socket connection to itself: tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:51000 localhost.localdomain:51000 ESTABLISHED The key to exposing the bug is attempting to connect as fast as possible with no delay between connection attempts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-11 & kernel-2.4.21-32.0.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See description 2. 3. Actual Results: See description Expected Results: According to the developer: On Solaris the same program will not connect to itself and our app functions properly. I've attached an example program that can cause this to occur. We've coded around it but I'd like to find out if it is a bug or a linux-ism. Additional info:
Created attachment 120169 [details] test case for bug report
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