[stunnel-users] Stunnel | connection reset by peer

Thu Jun 27 11:50:41 CEST 2013

Prem Vikash Upadhyay wrote:
> Is there any configuration that can be used, to change the 
> 'connection
> reset by peer' to 'connection refused'?.

With BSD sockets "connection refused" means that no service was 
listening on this port.  It is not an error that can be sent to a 
connection that was already accepted.  The only way to deal with it for 
stunnel (i.e. without any kernel support or using TLI) would be to 
unbind the port.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Interface

Mike