The code fragment below hangs until the script timeout on fgetc().  It's trying to make a POP3 connection, which should give an immediate "+OK dmt POP3 Server (Version 1.005l) ready at <Thu Jun 17 06:26:25 1999>        " line upon connecting.  This script (and actually a much, much more complicated version) run perfectly under Linux, but neither works in FreeBSD.  Exact same setup.  Apache 1.3.6, PHP 3.0.9. --enable-track-vars --with-apache=../apache_1.3.6 --with-mysql --without-pcre-regex

You can try executing this code at http://bsd.bolted.net/toast.php3.  php3.ini can be downloaded from http://bsd.bolted.net/php3.ini.  It'd kinda really really REAAALLY be helpful to get this fixed quick, we're bouncing the connections around between a linux and BSD box as a quickfix, but the traffic's growing exponentially thanks to the SQL database accesses..

I've also verified it's getting past the fsockopen.. It's that damn fgetc it's locking on.  fgets does the same thing.

<?
$fd = fsockopen ("lfx.org", 110);
if (!$fd) die ("Can't open socket!");

$char = fgetc ($fd);
echo "Got '$char' (expecting a +)";
?>