www/obhttpd and question marks in sockstat
Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff
stdin at niklaas.eu
Wed Mar 30 07:24:18 UTC 2016
Matthew Seaman [2016-03-29 22:59 +0100] :
> Three hours does seem a little excessive for closing down a listening
> socket. Yeah, that's not right. Those already-closed connections
> should disappear after a few seconds. Actually, it's also quite odd now
> I come to think of it, to see them for the listening socket of a server
> process. It's common for them to appear for the point to point link
> when a particular client connects and then disconnects -- you can see
> the effect in sockstat on either the server or the client machines.
>
> This is possibly related to the other odd output you've been seeing.
> Looks like the obhttpd process is not getting shutdown properly; rather
> it seems to be being killed in an excessively brutal way, which prevents
> it from cleaning up after itself.
Sounds reasonable.
> It might be worth trying some alternate web servers. If you want a
> pretty bare-bones but fast alternative, I like www/nginx-devel with most
> of the port's OPTIONS turned off.
>
> I know that nginx doesn't normally suffer from anything like this
> effect. If you still see it with nginx, then you've good evidence it's
> not something to do with a specific httpd implementation, but something
> systemic in your server setup.
>
> Do you see anything similar for any other network servers on your
> machine? Assuming, that is, you can afford to turn them off and
> on-again a few times while checking.
I've already installed www/nginx, started/stopped it, and it works, that is, no
"open" ports once I stopped it. So I'm sure that mail/obhttpd is malfunctioning
has something to do with mail/obhttpd and not the system.
Priyadarshan [2016-03-30 06:59 +0000] :
> As alternative to obhttpd, we have been using Caddy with good results.
>
> It is not on Freshports (yet) but one could get most configurations for
> FreeBSD here: https://caddyserver.com/download
Wow. Looks interesting. Probably I'll wait until v1.0 and a port though.
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