Package: xinetd Version: 1:2.3.13-3 Severity: important xinetd handles plenty of pop3s here. it has the "cps X Y" setting, limiting connections per second, and deactivating service if overloaded. THat's fine.
xinetd seem to unbind the port. this is not really good, because: May 21 12:43:23 host xinetd[9622]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=5457 duration=0(sec) May 21 12:43:23 host ippl: pop3 connection attempt from 555.444.197.510 May 21 12:43:23 host xinetd[9622]: Deactivating service pop-3 due to excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 4 seconds. May 21 12:43:23 host xinetd[9622]: FAIL: pop-3 connections per second from=555.444.197.510 May 21 12:43:25 host ippl: port 19730 connection attempt from 555.444.196.3 May 21 12:43:26 host ippl: pop3 connection attempt from 555.444.198.586 May 21 12:43:26 host ippl: pop3 connection attempt from 193.151.116.531 May 21 12:43:27 host xinetd[9622]: bind failed (Address already in use (errno = 98)). service = pop-3 May 21 12:43:27 host xinetd[9622]: Error activating service pop-3 at that point xinetd have given up pop3 port. for ever, it seems, since even reloading (HUP) doesn't get it again. restart is needed. I don't know who and how got the port (occasional enough not to be able to reproduce and customers are angrier than let me play with it), but would be nice not to let anyone grab it. Since this is internet superserver I really expect it to be as aggressive as possible to let the programmed serviced running if possible. Retry the ports often. It seems this may be a reason for me to drop xinetd since it is not acceptable to have this service dying. (Obviously.) -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux host 2.4.21 #2 Mon Jul 14 17:42:43 CEST 2003 i686 unknown Versions of the packages xinetd depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libwrap0 7.6-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library ii netbase 4.07 Basic TCP/IP networking system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
