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Re: tftp/udp server failing (looping), service terminated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Benson)
Fri Aug 16 20:30:02 1996
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:22:46 -0700
From: Eric Benson <eb@amazon.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, server-linux@netspace.org
Eric Benson wrote:
>
> 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
Thanks for all the responses! It's always nice when a fix is so
simple. I'm afraid I never made the connection between the message
"failing (looping)" and the inetd.conf wait parameter. It probably just
took 2 or 3 X terminals booting in the same minute to trigger this
condition. I just set the limit to 200 which seems reasonable enough.
Well, actually, if it got a steady stream of 200 requests a minute all
day long it would be broken. On the other hand, if it got a steady
stream of 40 a minute it would be broken, too! It would be reasonable
to have "per-hour" or "per-day" limits as well as "per-minute" limits,
but I suppose you've got to stop somewhere.
Eric Benson
eb@amazon.com
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