iPlanet uxwdog syslog entries

[Sean OB_1]

I've got a 11i web server that is literally getting hundreds of thousands of this error in the syslog:

Jun 25 09:58:02 uxwdog[3963]: Poll failed: nmsgs=-216, errno=216 (Socket operation on non-socket)

I've searched sunsolve and found one bug report similar, with no resolution of course.

Has anyone else seen this from iPlanet?

[Steven E. Protter]

Possible answer:

http://search.hp.com/redirect.html?url=http%3A//forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe703c7af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html&qt=Poll+%2Bfailed+%2BiPlanet&hit=1

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[Sean OB_1]

Thanks but no solutions there. I already searched ITRC on uxwdog, poll failed, and socket operation on non-socket, as well as Google for the same.

I found a lot of socket results, but none that were from iPlanet or that seemed to help my situation.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Sean,

Although we don't use iPlanet per se, I can tell you that err #216 is a standard OS error - ENOTSOCK - description identical.
To me that implies that iPlanet is trying to perform an operation on a socket that hasn't formed yet or has closed already.
I'd start using netstat to watch socket usage & even possibly something like ethereal to watch just what's happening with connections.
You may have a network problem or rogue systems running port scans or even possibly weak DOS attacks.
But it sure seems that iPlanet is convinced a socket has been created when in fact the OS know that there is no socket.

Good Hunting,
Jeff