[erlang-questions] Peername of a closed TCP socket

[Tony Rogvall]

Sad to hear that it did not work. So I checked the code.
The peername is already stored away in a field called inet.remote  in  
the driver.
The call to get the peername do not use that field, instead it calls  
getpeername
which of course will fail in your case.

A simple fix (tm) will be to change the inet_drv to return the  
inet.remote when possible
instead of calling getpeername. There is some code to set fake  
peernames (used
by old socks/proxy implemenation) that needs to be handled, otherwise  
I do not see any problems.

OTP?

/Tony


On 3 jun 2009, at 13.19, Dowse, Malcolm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it didn't help. After some more
> investigation I managed to reproduce the issue. The client was closing
> its connection immediately after opening with the SO_LINGER option
> enabled, and a timeout of 0 seconds. This resulted in a RST with no  
> FIN.
> So, even if I called peername immediately after accept, with option
> {exit_on_close, false} set, it always returned enotconn.
>
> However, when I wrote a server in C I had no problem getting the  
> remote
> address. The 'accept' C call returns a socket address along with the  
> new
> file descriptor. This is also the interface given by the 'accept' call
> in python's socket module.
>
> Would it be possible to get a similar accept interface in Erlang, in  
> the
> future?
>
> best regards,
>
> malcolm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Rogvall [mailto:tony@REDACTED]
> Sent: 26 May 2009 22:06
> To: Dowse, Malcolm
> Cc: Erlang Questions
> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Peername of a closed TCP socket
>
> You can try the inet option:
> 	{exit_on_close, false}
> This will keep the port and the socket active so you can read
> statistics,
> continue write data to a half open socket and possibly get the
> peername, if that is available
> by the underlying operating system.
>
> You must then call gen_tcp:close to terminate the port/socket
>
> /Tony
>
>
> On 26 maj 2009, at 17.39, Malcolm Dowse wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When a TCP client disconnects very soon after connecting to an
>> Erlang server, is there any reliable way of getting the client's
>> remote address?
>>
>> The inet:peername/1 function returns an error if the socket in
>> question has closed. As a result, I can't find any better solution
>> than to refactor the code so that inet:peername/1 is called as soon
>> as possible after the gen_tcp:accept/1.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> malcolm
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