Racoon daemon stops responding after pk_recv call on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- Racoon daemon stops responding for ~2 minutes.
- During this time racoon does not respond to Dead Peer Detection (DPD) probes from the remote peer and otherwise logs nothing.
- Appears to be stuck in a loop or waiting in a system call.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5), all releases up to and including RHEL5 Update 5
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ipsec-tools
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