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Re: tftp/udp server failing (looping), service terminated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Aug 16 13:06:18 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: eb@amazon.com (Eric Benson)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:12:36 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, server-linux@netspace.org
In-Reply-To: <3213A210.42F29AB5@amazon.com> from "Eric Benson" at Aug 15, 96 03:17:52 pm
> I'm running bootbd and tftpd on Linux serving a bunch of NCD
> X-terminals. It's working fine, except that once in a while I get this
> message in /var/log/messages,
>
> Aug 15 14:28:14 lambada inetd[95]: tftp/udp server failing (looping),
> service terminated
Your server kept being run again and again in fast sequence. inetd
by default interprets this as a broken server and shuts it down to
avoid wasting CPU time. man inetd.conf and you'll see how to tell inetd
that in your case its meant to be running millions of them
