Re: [cobalt-users] ftp/tcp looping

["PageKeeper Service" <host@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Did not start after a patch. Raq4.

Perhaps you are getting more than 40 connections per minute on that 
service (the default for inetd.) Read the inetd.conf manpage - you'll 
probably want to change the line in /etc/inetd.conf to something like: 

nowait.100 

or some other number. That number (100 in the example) is how many 
invocations of that daemon per minute are permitted by inetd before 
thinking that service is being attacked and shutting it down. After 
making the change, restart inetd.

Saw this once..
a particular client on the 
network was set up to continually ftp files to this system. Someone had 
changed the password for the account that the machine was trying to ftp 
to so it kept re-trying to send at a very high rate which caused the 
error message. After changing the password on the remote machine so it 
could properly establish an ftp session, the issue went away.

  David Hahn

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