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Re: [cobalt-users] [RAQ4] pop connection refused



On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Marcus Clements wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone has ever experienced a problem when users can't 
> check mail even though pop is running ok.  The error they receive is 
> "connection refused".  During this period you can ping, telnet, https to 
> the server with no problems.  The problem seems to rectify itself in around 
> 5-10 mins,

hmm, inetd will refuse further connections if too many happen in too short
a time , usually it will log this tho ... (eg 'service looping')

after a few minutes it will average out the load and accept connections
again...

gsh