[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#424405: Bug#424405: Smbd keeps many TCP connections for no good reason (deadtime/keepalive)

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Daniel F. Smith (dfsmith at almaden.ibm.com):
> Package: samba
> Version: 3.0.24-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> Running "netstat -tap" in my environment showed many connections being
> fielded by smbd, some probably many weeks old.
> 
> The default configuration revealed that Samba was sending keepalive messages
> even though the connections didn't ask for anything that existed (and failed
> authentication---they are mostly browser requests and maybe worms).
> 
> Adding "deadtime = 1" to /etc/samba/smb.conf kept the netstat table
> manageable.  A value of 5 may be more appropriate for general use.


That seems to be upstream's recommendation, yes ("Using this parameter with a timeout of a few minutes is recommended for most systems").

Any objections from other maintainers if I activate this in the
default provided smb.conf?


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