Mark,
Judging from the error code, it looks like it's coming from the windoze
client. I think that 10054 error is from the post-NT version of Winsock --
might I suggest a later version of mirc? I foggily recall getting them when
I switched over to W2K from NT (and then promptly retired from irc network
administration). Khaled has probably found the root of that 10054 by now.
Going back to my ircd days (a while ago now), there are many things in the
ircd.conf file that have to be balanced: not just the Y line, but I lines
(and P lines, if you have them) ... they all work together. There is also a
MAX_CONNECTIONS (or some such silliness) in the config.h file that has to
be properly set before you compile the ircd. To be frank, there are about a
zillion versions of ircd out there, and I haven't seen the one that is
showing up on the S/390 distros. Each has its own quirks, and they're all
quirky. One ircd that I worked with for a while even had a booby trap in
the config.h file so that "clueless" admins couldn't compile servers that
would handle more than a handful of users!
Ah, the agony of ircd server administration all comes back to me now (been
there, done that, no more!).
--Jim--
James S. Tison
Senior Software Engineer
TPF Laboratory / Architecture
IBM Corporation
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I've got a geographically dispersed group of people that want to use
Linux/390 for an irc server to facilitate realtime problem collaboration.
(Yeah, Intel might have been a better choice, but hey...) I set it up for
them using the ircd that comes with SuSE 7.0, and everything seemed to be
fine, until more people started using it. Just today, people started
seeing
this when they tried to connect:
[12:58] *** [10054] Connection reset by peer
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[12:58] *** Disconnected
If someone disconnects, then another person can connect, but not otherwise.
When I do a netstat from an ssh session, I see a total of 40 connections to
port 6667. An irc /list command shows a total of 83 or so channel
"members." I checked my Y-line in /etc/ircd/ircd.conf, and it has this:
Y:14:90::950:512000:3.3:3.3
Supposedly, the 950 number is the maximum number of connections the server
will accept, so we're nowhere near that. Does anyone have any idea what
might be the knob I need to tweak?
Mark Post
