From: Greg Bothe (gbothe@discover.wright.edu)
Date: 04/01/93


From: gbothe@discover.wright.edu (Greg Bothe)
Subject: Re: inetd hangs?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 21:34:53 GMT

Framstag (ORAKEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de) wrote:
: From time to time my inetd seems to hang, I cannot log on any more with
: telnet or ftp. The system is still running and old telnet sessions are
: working, too.

: from a Sun I see:

: $ telnet dontpanic
: Trying 134.60.204.150...
: Connected to 134.60.204.150.
: Escape character is '^]'.

: and now it hangs... no response at all. I have to kill the session on the
: Sun.

: When I kill the inetd on Linux and restart it, telnet and ftp work again.
: This bug happens abbout 2-3 times a week.

: Any Idea what happens and what I can do against it?

: I'm running Linux .99pl6

: thanx - Frams.

Try the inetd on ftp.super.org in /pub/linux under network (I think). This
one seems to work a lot better for me than the one that comes in SLS.
(A LOT! less hangs...)

Greg Bothe
gbothe@desire.wright.edu