CLOSE_WAIT not closing in Bind 9.2.0

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a2hrqo$odt at pub3.rc.vix.com>, D.M. <hmprimerib at hotmail.com> wrote:
>We have multiple lingering CLOSE_WAIT's on our bind 9.2.0 server which
>means the client sent a FIN, but the server hasn't closed its socket
>yet.  This leads me to believe this is possibly a problem with the
>server.  Anyone know how to control these?  make sure they die after a
>set time?

Since DNS clients normally use UDP, not TCP, are you sure that these
connections are related to BIND?  Normally, TCP is only used for zone
transfers.  Are the connections going to port 53 on the server?

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