Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 POP3 Termination

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard at Quarryhouse wrote:

> Further to one of my earlier messages, my pop3 service kept terminating
> with:
> 
> ns inetd[29937]: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated.
> 
> I looked on Google and there were quite a lot of the same errors. One of the
> fixes was to change the inetd.conf file by putting a timeout value after the
> nowait statement against the pop3 line.
> 
> I have changed mine to nowait.160
> 
> Is this OK or will it cause any other problems?

Well, it's a bandaid, you should really look at the log files and see why
you need to allow more connections per second to the pop server before
just going and doing it. It's possible someone is bombing your pop server
after all, and you just made it easier for them to bury the server :)
On the other hand, outlook beats pop servers kind of hard, so it may well
be reasonable, but you are just guessing until you figure out
*why*. /var/log/maillog ...

You did install the various security patches, right?

gsh