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Metalshark
Asked: 2010-07-27 04:01:13 +0800 CST

What is the meaning of "Treason Uncloaked" in Linux?

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On a Linux Apache server, from time to time, there are messages saying TCP: Treason uncloaked!.

There are previous questions on ServerFault explaining the fixes for this issue.

However does anyone know the meaning of this error message? Why would mis-matched TCP messages provoke such an unclear error message? Has this message got some history behind it?

linux apache-2.2 tcp

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  1. Best Answer

    It's part of a long tradition of attempts (and successes) at humor in Unix and Linux error messages. It simply means that a TCP window was shrunk unexpectedly.

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