What does LAST_ACK mean, as a State value in netstat?

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Published on 2010-03-31T15:10:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 15:13 UTC
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If a Windows server has several thousand ports open in LAST_ACK state (as shown by netstat), what could this mean? Is it because one endpoint is waiting for the other to respond?

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