Re: refused connections........
Bruce Elliott (rhdv@beatrix.fss.fokker.nl)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:21:14 +0100 (MET)
Doug Paul said:
>
> >
> > running kernel 1.3.68
> >
> > after a short period of time, inetd will start refusing all connections
> > untill I kill -HUP it. (it's done this with .60, .62, .64, not sure
> > about .67, I only ran it for about 2 minutes)
>
> We have experienced a more limited version of this: inetd will occasionally
> start refusing connections on port 80 (very heavily used) while still
> allowing connections on other ports. No error messages. Telnet to port 80
> will (as I remember) give a connection refused error message. Sometimes
> inetd will recover spontaneously in the next hour or so, otherwise a
> kill -HUP fixes it. Happens for both 1.2.13 and 1.3.57. (Haven't
> tried other kernels on this machine--too many people depend it to reboot
> it very often.)
Sounds very familiar. It's the inetd daemon itself. It disables a
service when it gets more than 40 requests per minute for that
service. You can change the limit with the following option:
ftp stream tcp nowait.300 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/wu.ftpd
^^^^
Robert
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