Outbound TCP issue, potentially related to'FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem [REVISED]'

[Mike Silbersack]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Matt Ruzicka wrote:

> A couple days after we patched our systems, we started to receive a number
> of reports of mysql connection errors when our patched FreeBSD 4.9 web
> servers were trying to connect to our mysql server, which lives on a
> separate FreeBSD machine.

Although you just saw this behavior now, it sounds like you're describing 
a problem that sometimes occurs due to port randomization.  Can you try 
setting sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized=0 to see if that affects 
anything?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack