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The minimal work-around patch is in this commit:

https://github.com/mbattersby/nsca/comm ... 468d03f514

for which I also sent a pull request.

Fantastic, thanks for your prompt responses and assistance.

My question is really:

Who, if anyone, is maintaining NSCA and would fix this bug?

Given that it appears the commercial Nagios XI doesn't use NSCA, and NSCA is not part of nagios-core. Two-year-old bug reports on the NSCA part of the tracker are still in "NEW" state.

I have logged this on the tracker as:

http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=644

Is NSCA part of Nagios Core? When I downloaded the Nagios Core tarball it wasn't included.

nsca-2.7.2-uom.patch I believe I've found a significant bug in the nsca daemon. Under heavy connection load we are seeing this hang nsca (forever) every few days, and more frequently freeze until the remote disconnects. In summary: nsca closes client connection file descriptors on error or eof and ...