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Re: POP3 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Wed Oct 23 10:05:29 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:13:24 EST."
<4FE11135F6B@opus.oca.udayton.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:00:58 -0400
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"Craig Bull" writes:
>We are having major problems with ipop3d refusing connections. It
>may work fine for several days, and then stop refusing connections.
>We issue a kill -HUP on inetd and it starts taking connections
>again. We may then have problems for about 12 hours, but then things
>clear up again, for a while, anyway.
Could you verify that this is not the standard 40-connections-per-minute
limit in inetd showing up?
Try changing the pop-3 entry to something like
pop-3 stream tcp nowait.5000 root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
^^^^
and see if the problem goes away. If it doesn't, please let us
know.
michaelkjohnson
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