Travis Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is happening to my server any clues.
>
>Nov 19 13:53:49 mail inetd[516]: smtp/tcp server
>failing (looping or being flooded) stopping service
>for 10 minutes$
Your SMTP service is busy, either with legitimate traffic or some
illegitimate flood (an intentional attack or a misconfigured/
misbehaving remote server) and inetd is turning off SMTP service for
10 minutes.
You'll have to look at the nature of that SMTP traffic to determine if
it's legitimate or not. If it's legitimate, you'll either need to
configure inetd to allow a higher connection rate for SMTP or switch
to tcpserver, the recommended metaserver for qmail-smtpd.
If it's not legitimate, you'll have to figure out a way to make it
stop--perhaps by contacting the remote site or blocking them from
connecting to port 25, which is easy with tcpserver but not with
inetd.
-Dave
