Greg,
I have never run identd on my qmail server, and
I've never had any problems. We're using a P75 with
32MB.
I don't think it's anything to worry about. In fact,
I drop any packets coming in on port 113 (identd).
Just my .02.
Steve
--- Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Dear All
>
> This may be offtopic but here goes ...
>
> I've an old box resurected as a qmail server for a
> small office. It
> only has 16 meg of ram, but seems to cope quite
> well. Until this
> morning! (log entries below):
>
> The machine appears to have been flood via Ident
> requests - This smells
> of a DOS via Identd to me ....
>
> Is not running identd (its run as a daemon from
> /etc/rc.d/) for a smtp
> box going to cause problems ?
>
> Has anyone else seen such issues on a low memory
> qmail server / redhat
> 6.2 box ?
>
> I have no other problems with other redhat / qmail
> boxes of different
> vintages (although they all have more ram).
>
> Any clues greatfully recieved.
>
> Greg Cope
>
>
> ### log entries ###
>
>
> Jun 27 08:24:04 mailgate identd[10709]:
> request_thread: read(11, ...,
> 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer
> Jun 27 08:24:10 mailgate identd[10719]:
> request_thread: read(11, ...,
> 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer
> Jun 27 08:24:32 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot
> allocate memory
> Jun 27 08:25:18 mailgate last message repeated 6
> times
> Jun 27 08:26:40 mailgate last message repeated 9
> times
> Jun 27 08:27:25 mailgate last message repeated 9
> times
> Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: accept (for
> telnet): No buffer
> space available
> Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate last message repeated 559
> times
> Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot
> allocate memory
> Jun 27 08:28:01 mailgate last message repeated 4
> times
> Jun 27 08:29:26 mailgate last message repeated 6
> times
> Jun 27 08:30:47 mailgate last message repeated 5
> times
> Jun 27 08:31:55 mailgate last message repeated 4
> times
>
> Jun 27 08:33:57 mailgate syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> <--- machine
> unresponsive so "bounced"
=====
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