[jcifs] Re: SocketException: Connection reset

[Michael B Allen]

> Hello Michael,
>
> I'm about "java.net.SocketException: Connection reset"
>

First, how frequently is this message printed in the log?

Second, thanks. I was hoping someone would get a capture of this. It would be nice
if you could get the HTTP port used by IE clients and run your capture on the web
server but your capture was very informative non-the-less.

What I see (intermingled with a lot of other irrelivant traffic) is the domain
controller periodically emitting a NetBIOS session service message containing one
0 byte. This appears to be some kind of "heartbeat". Fortunately the capture also
caught these heartbeat messages with three clients in total. The behavior of all
clients is the same; they do nothing other than send an ACK. Assuming not all
clients are jCIFS then it appears that jCIFS is doing the right thing to deal with
the heartbeat (it ignores it).

The RST that is causing this "Connection reset" message is immediately followed by
one of these hearbeat messages which suggests to me that the domain controller is
just doing some benign connection/resource management.

The problem of course is that there is a message being written into the log. I
have modified jCIFS to supress this particular message. I have upload a
jcifs-0.7.17t.jar with this change. Please try it. I will upload the new
jcifs-0.7.17 packages within a day or so.

Otherwise the change is in jcifs/smb/SmbTransport.java:

    432         // it's a request(break oplock)
    433     }
    434 }
    435 } catch( InterruptedIOException iioe ) {
    436     if( responseTable.size() == 0 ) {
    437         tryClose( false );
    438     } else {
    439         Log.println( Log.WARNINGS, "smb warning",
    440                     " soTimeout has occured but there are " +
    441                     responseTable.size() + " pending requests" );
    442     }
    443 } catch( IOException ioe ) {
    444     synchronized( this ) {
    445         tryClose( true );
    446     }
    447     if( ioe.getMessage().startsWith( "Connection reset" ) == false ) {
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    448         Log.printStackTrace( "exception reading from socket input: " +
addressioe );
    449          }
    450      }

I just added the clause above.

Again, how frequently does this message appear in the log? Can you calculate the
frequency in seconds? Is it consistent?

Mike

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