Connection Reset By Peer

["Ferreira, André" <an...@siemens.com>]

Can someone please explain to me what does "Connection reset by peer" means?
Does it mean the server does not recognize the connection attempt from
Tomcat or are there some other explanations.
Or is there some port not available.......:-(.


2003-12-17 01:14:06 - ContextManager: SocketException reading request,
ignored - java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAvailable(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.available(PlainSocketImpl.java:501)
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.available(SocketInputStream.java:142)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:217)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)



Thanx.

André Ferreira


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Re: Connection Reset By Peer

[Philipp Taprogge <ph...@gmx.net>]

Hi!

Ferreira, André wrote:
> Can someone please explain to me what does "Connection reset by peer" means?
> Does it mean the server does not recognize the connection attempt from
> Tomcat or are there some other explanations.
> Or is there some port not available.......:-(.

Since TCP is a connection-less protocol, it uses a three-way handshake 
to simulate a connection. The client sends a packet with only the SYN 
bit set, the server replies with a SYN ACK packet and the client 
acknowledges this with a single ACK. After that, server and client have 
agreed to act as if they were actually connected to each other and they 
begin to actually exchange data. If now at any time one of the two sends 
a packet with the RST (reset) bit set, this indicates that the makeshift 
connection has been disrupted. This can have many reasons.
So, "connection reset by peer" on one end (e.g. the broswer) means, that 
the other end (in this case the server) closed the connection for 
reasons unknown.
In this case, the server process is running fine and the port is 
available as well, the server just wouldn't talk to you.

	Phil

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