diff -ur ndoutils-1.4b3.original/src/ndo2db.c ndoutils-1.4b3/src/ndo2db.c
--- ndoutils-1.4b3.original/src/ndo2db.c	2008-03-04 12:24:00.000000000 +0000
+++ ndoutils-1.4b3/src/ndo2db.c	2008-03-04 14:31:49.609330552 +0000
@@ -804,9 +809,14 @@
 		result=read(sd,buf,sizeof(buf)-1);
 
 		/* bail out on hard errors */
-		if(result==-1 && (errno!=EAGAIN && errno!=EINTR)){
-			error=NDO_TRUE;
-			break;
+		if(result==-1) {
+			/* Altinity patch: EAGAIN and EINTR are soft errors, so try another read() */
+			if (errno==EAGAIN || errno==EINTR)
+				continue;
+			else {
+				error=NDO_TRUE;
+				break;
+				}
 		        }
 
 		/* zero bytes read means we lost the connection with the client */