kill a socket?

[posterboy]

Here is the output od a netstat -A inet:

tcp 0 0 raymondjones.net:1243 toc-m01.blue.aol.c:9898 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 raymondjones.net:4000 hlst216-37-159ppp2:1028 ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 raymondjones.net:4074 mjxads.internet.com:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 raymondjones.net:4075 mjxads.internet.com:www CLOSE_WAIT tcp 30 0 raymondjones.net:3356 rhm2.redhat.com:ftp CLOSE_WAIT tcp 0 0 raymondjones.net:3235 paladin.maelstrom.:ircd ESTABLISHED tcp 1 0 raymondjones.net:4073 63.236.73.208:www CLOSE_WAIT udp 0 0 raymondjones.net:1025 raymondjones.net:syslog ESTABLISHED udp 0 0 raymondjones.net:1148 fes-d004.icq.aol.c:4000 ESTABLISHED


OK, I understand most of this. I am connected to these places. All except redhat.
that was a connection from yesterday!. This only rearely happens, a connection is marked close_wait, but isn't abandoned.
How can I manually make that socket close?
Thanks, Ray

[X_console]

I'll move this to Networking. You might get more responses there.