Poco Net HTTPSClientSession Host not found - https

We have a client application which keeps sending some plain text to the server every 5 seconds.
Every 5 seconds, we create a HTTPSClientSession with server IP and Port, and then send the data. Session is closed afer send as HTTPSClientSession is created as a local variable in the sending function.
What we have observed is that in some cases, sending data works for some time and after that it stops working.
Strange thing is that if we disable wifi and enable it again, client resumes sending data.
Any help about how to solve this is appreciated.
Most of the times POCO exception returns "Host not found" , "Timeout" or "Software caused connection abort".
Thanks

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Why are some WCF Named Pipe clients getting a TimeoutException

I have a WCF name pipe service, to communicate 2 processes on windows.
I've tested it on my machine and it worked, I've developed an installer for it, and it's working for most users, but some users are getting a TimeoutException with this message:
"request operation sent to net.pipe://localhost/myService did not receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:00:10). The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout. This may be because the service is still processing the operation or because the service was unable to send a reply message. Please consider increasing the operation timeout (by casting the channel/proxy to IContextChannel and setting the OperationTimeout property) and ensure that the service is able to connect to the client."
What can be the reason for this error? Is it a security issue? Where can I set security settings for named pipes?
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Some users may not receive a reply in time due to network problems, which may cause a timeout.
You can configure the timeout setting in configuration file by setting the send and receive timeout on binding element.
Apply the binding configuration on both service and client-side:
<netNamedPipeBinding>
<binding sendTimeout="00:20:00" receiveTimeout="00:20:00">
<reliableSession inactivityTimeout="00:20:00"/>
</binding>
</netNamedPipeBinding>

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset on reaching 3000 users in JMeteR

All required changes have been done to respective files like:
stalecheck=true,
keepalive is checked from HTTP request defaults,
retrycount=1,
hc.parameters file changes,
Socket timeout is 240000
Still we see "java.net.SocketException: Connection reset" in response data however I see the valid requests been passed to Server.
The issue wasnt till we reach 3000 users, worked smoothly till 3000 users.
Connection Reset has a lot of meaning, possible reasons are:
One of the server components is not able to handle load so it closes connections on its side
On JMeter side, check that you running in NON GUI mode and that neither JMeter JVM nor injector machine are overloaded which could explain this. See:
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html#non_gui

JMeter TCPSampler - how to handle a custom protocol with a periodic keep alive?

I am relatively new to JMeter however I have been doing Performance testing for almost a decade.
I am working with a proprietary TCP protocol that sends a keep alive periodically - through the existing TCP connection.
I am struggling to understand how I can fork the JMeter 'thread group' to handle a TCP Keep alive received over the same TCP session.
Any ideas?
Thank you brainstrust!
edit: I'm using the TCPsampler and have read the help page. I'll try to provide some more detail shortly about what's happening and how the protocol is written.
edit2: Unfortunately because it's a propriety protocol I cannot reveal the exact nature of the protocol itself but it's largely irrelevant to the problem I'm facing.
Basically, I use the 1st TCP sampler to 'start/authenticate' the session with the server. This is configured the following options:
1. TCPClient classname: LengthPrefixedBinaryTCPClientImpl (my protocol is implemented this standard way)
2. Re-use connection ON.
3. Close connection OFF.
4. Set NoDelay OFF.
5. SO_Linger: nothing
6. Text to send: my hex code for the protocol (this is correct)
I get the response from the first TCP request and then I want to start interacting, however in the session, the server sends a keep alive mid-stream, so occassionally when I send a request, I get an unexpected keep alive response instead (it's an open stream of data).
This is what I would like to solve.
I attempted to use a recursive test fragment, so that on KeepAlive response, it would send the request again however one cannot recurse the test fragments (it throws a Java error on Run attempt).
I hope this gives more context! Thank you for your patience (I'm a newbie SO user!)
Please check the below options if it helps with you sceario:-
If "Re-use connection" is selected, connections are shared between
Samplers in the same thread, provided that the exact same host name
string and port are used. Different hosts/port combinations will use
different connections, as will different threads. If both of "Re-use
connection" and "Close connection" are selected, the socket will be
closed after running the sampler. On the next sampler, another socket
will be created. You may want to close a socket at the end of each
thread loop.
If an error is detected - or "Re-use connection" is not selected - the
socket is closed. Another socket will be reopened on the next sample.
The following properties can be used to control its operation:
tcp.status.prefix text that precedes a status numbertcp.status.suffix
text that follows a status numbertcp.status.properties name of
property file to convert status codes to messagestcp.handler Name of
TCP Handler class (default TCPClientImpl) - only used if not specified
on the GUI
For more details:-https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#TCP_Sampler

google app engine cloud sql connection never closes

I`m in the development stage of an app and I don't make many server\cloud sql calls but for some reason I have an average of 400 usage hours a month.
When I look at the cloud sql active connections dashboard I see there is always at least one active connection but in the read\write operations it's usually on 0 besides the occasional small bumps.
I create a new connection each time I make a request to the server\cloud sql and close the connection each time when I return the response.
the connection code is(I followed the guestbook tutorial\example)
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.GoogleDriver");
this.dbUrl = "jdbc:google:mysql://trivia9991:triviadb?user=root";
this.dbConn = DriverManager.getConnection(dbUrl);
the closing connection code is
this.dbConn.close();
How can this keep a connection open at all time?
If the connection close code is actually running this should not be the issue. You should make sure that the connection is closed even if an exception occurs before hand.
It is also possible that a connection you made using the MySQL command line client is still open.
You can examine what connections are open by connecting using the MySQL command line client and running a SHOW PROCESSLIST; statement.

Irregular socket errors (10054) on Windows application

I am working on a Windows (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005) application that uses several processes
running on different hosts in an intranet.
Processes communicate with each other using TCP/IP. Different processes can be on the
same host or on different hosts (i.e. the communication can be both within the same
host or between different hosts).
We have currently a bug that appears irregularly. The communication seems to work
for a while, then it stops working. Then it works again for some time.
When the communication does not work, we get an error (apparently while a process
was trying to send data). The call looks like this:
send(socket, (char *) data, (int) data_size, 0);
By inspecting the error code we get from
WSAGetLastError()
we see that it is an error 10054. Here is what I found in the Microsoft documentation
(see here):
WSAECONNRESET
10054
Connection reset by peer.
An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. This normally
results if the peer application on the remote host is suddenly stopped, the
host is rebooted, the host or remote network interface is disabled, or the
remote host uses a hard close (see setsockopt for more information on the
SO_LINGER option on the remote socket). This error may also result if a
connection was broken due to keep-alive activity detecting a failure while
one or more operations are in progress. Operations that were in progress
fail with WSAENETRESET. Subsequent operations fail with WSAECONNRESET.
So, as far as I understand, the connection was interrupted by the receiving process.
In some cases this error is (AFAIK) correct: one process has terminated and
is therefore not reachable. In other cases both the sender and receiver are running
and logging activity, but they cannot communicate due to the above error (the error
is reported in the logs).
My questions.
What does the SO_LINGER option mean?
What is a keep-alive activity and how can it break a connection?
How is it possible to avoid this problem or recover from it?
Regarding the last question. The first solution we tried (actually, it is rather a
workaround) was resending the message when the error occurs. Unfortunately, the
same error occurs over and over again for a while (a few minutes). So this is not
a solution.
At the moment we do not understand if we have a software problem or a configuration
issue: maybe we should check something in the windows registry?
One hypothesis was that the OS runs out of ephemeral ports (in case connections are
closed but ports are not released because of TcpTimedWaitDelay), but by analyzing
this issue we think that there should be plenty of them: the problem occurs even
if messages are not sent too frequently between processes. However, we still are not
100% sure that we can exclude this: can ephemeral ports get lost in some way (???)
Another detail that might help is that sending and receiving occurs in each process
concurrently in separate threads: are there any shared data structures in the
TCP/IP libraries that might get corrupted?
What is also very strange is that the problem occurs irregularly: communication works
OK for a few minutes, then it does not work for a few minutes, then it works again.
Thank you for any ideas and suggestions.
EDIT
Thanks for the hints confirming that the only possible explanation was a connection closed error. By further analysis of the problem, we found out that the server-side process of the connection had crashed / had been terminated and had been restarted. So there was a new server process running and listening on the correct port, but the client had not detected this and was still trying to use the old connection. We now have a mechanism to detect such situations and reset the connection on the client side.
That error means that the connection was closed by the
remote site. So you cannot do anything on your programm except to accept that the connection is broken.
I was facing this problem for some days recently and found out that Adobe Acrobat Reader update was the culprit. As soon as you completely uninstall Adobe from the system everything returns back to normal.
I spent a long time debugging a 10054/10053 error in s3 pre-signed uploads
Turns out that the s3 server will reject pre-signed s3 uploads for the first 15 minutes of it's life.
So - If you're debugging s3 check it's not a new bucket.
If you're debugging something else - this is most likely a problem on the server side not client side.

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