Okay, this is a really strange sounding problem but I could use any ideas
anyone has.
I have three systems sending out mail in large quantities. One is the "master"
as the other two send it all the administrative messages and it is in charge
of parsing them. This machine is running a pretty much stock RedHat 5.2
system.
Anyway, all goes fine most of the time except occasionally (five times today)
I will get a lot of incoming traffic on the server and inetd decides it wants
to stop delivering on the smtp port. My line looks like
smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/qmail/bin/tcp-env
/usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
and when this happens I don't even get any notification from the tcpd log files
denoting any kind of connection attempt. When I try to telnet to the smtp port
I get the error
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
but in all other senses of the word inetd works fine. All it takes to get my
smtp connection back is a HUP of inetd but this is rather annoying anyway.
Any ideas what the problem could be or where I should look?
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