What does peer in 'Connection reset by peer' mean?
erik.h...@laufenberg.com
Hello!
This is what I can find in the xdm-errors log of my Solaris 2.5.1 Server
running xdm, after all PC-X-Servers have been killed. (And now there are some
angry users 'peering' at me)
XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "pc-3:0.0"
xterm: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) or KillClient on X
server "pc-6:0.0" xterm: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) or
KillClient on X server "pc-5:0.0" XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset
by peer) on X server "pc-4:0.0" XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by
peer) on X server "pc-5:0.0" XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by
peer) on X server "pc-4:0.0" xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or
KillClient on X server "pc-4:0.0" XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset
by peer) on X server "pc-4:0.0" xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or
KillClient on X server "pc-4:0.0"
I found no documentation about this error.
What does it mean in general (who is resetting the connection) ?
What is the technical meaning of 'peer' in this context?
Is it another word for Client?
Thankx,
Erik
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Chuck Dillon
erik.h...@laufenberg.com wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> This is what I can find in the xdm-errors log of my Solaris 2.5.1 Server
> running xdm, after all PC-X-Servers have been killed. (And now there are some
> angry users 'peering' at me)
>
> XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "pc-3:0.0"
>
> I found no documentation about this error.
> What does it mean in general (who is resetting the connection) ?
> What is the technical meaning of 'peer' in this context?
> Is it another word for Client?
If an X server crashes or is killed the connections
to any running clients will give this or a similar error.
The error 'Connection reset by peer' describes the condition
of the socket connection in socket/OS terms. All of this
happens underneath the X protocol. So these errors are
symptoms of the fact your X servers are being killed. At
the communication level the server and client are peers in
that they are sharing a socket connection.
>
> Thankx,
> Erik
>
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