Why are both ends of a TCP connection in the TIME_WAIT state?
Issue
- Both sockets on 2 different machines are in the
TIME_WAITstate. Which is holding the tuple up for an extended period of time approximately 60 seconds so it's unable to be reused.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- TCP
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