diff -ruN sendmail-8.9.3.orig/src/daemon.c sendmail-8.9.3/src/daemon.c
--- sendmail-8.9.3.orig/src/daemon.c	Tue Jan 26 05:00:16 1999
+++ sendmail-8.9.3/src/daemon.c	Fri Sep 24 15:43:38 1999
@@ -357,8 +357,23 @@
 				control = TRUE;
 			}
 #endif
-			if (t >= 0 || errno != EINTR)
+			if (t >= 0)
 				break;
+			/*
+			 *	Linux and some SVr4 flavors can return
+			 *	multiple non-fatal errors beside EINTR
+			 *	from accept().
+			 */
+			switch (errno) {
+				case EINTR:
+				case ETIMEDOUT:
+				case EHOSTUNREACH:
+				case ENETUNREACH:
+				case ECONNRESET:
+					t = 0;
+					break;
+			}
+			if (t < 0) break;
 		}
 		if (timedout)
 		{