Error accepting connection (Connection reset by peer)

Question

We are running WebAdvisor on iPlanet 6.0/Windows 2000 and are seeing a lot of the following errors in our logs (thousands a day).
[18/Apr/2005:14:40:11] failure ( 1600): Error accepting connection (Connection reset by peer)
[18/Apr/2005:14:40:24] failure ( 1600): Error accepting connection (The semaphore timeout period has expired.)
I have talked to iPlanet support and they are telling me that it is an OS issue. However, these have been running fine for about a year until about a week ago.
Also, our servers seem to have a leak as they slowly us up all the memory. If anyone knows of anything, please let me know. Thanks for your help

Answer 1

I had these issue open with SUN for a long time.
I have an existing case as well.
We have 6.0SP6, had upgraded to 6.0SP9. Did not go away,
We have 5 servers running JSP and all five servers have these almost every second. Originally SUN told us that they were being generated by the browsers dropping connections. Later they said it is an OS issue and talk to Microsoft. Opened up a case with Microsoft, They wanted to get more details about the calls that Iplanet was making. After that SUN told us that not to worry about the these errors.
I am really curious as to why you were not getting them before, now you are suddenly getting them. Do you know if there were other changes in the app/network.
I had requested that SUN assign us an enginner who is versed in Microsoft Windows, but they tell me that all of them are versed on Solaris not on WIndows.