From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 27 12:51: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from forbidden.dough.net (forbidden.dough.net [24.219.84.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCC837B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archon@forbidden.dough.net) Received: (from archon@localhost) by forbidden.dough.net (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f3RJp1D71072 for security@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:51:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from archon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:51:01 -0500 From: Dennis Moore To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: All network ports in use! Message-ID: <20010427145101.A71021@forbidden.dough.net> Mail-Followup-To: security@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:48:41AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:48:41AM -0500, Buliwyf McGraw wrote: > > Help, my server can not allow more connections from the users... > > When somebody do telnet, then get this message: > > All network ports in use > Connection Closed... :( > as others suggested, first increase the pseudo-tty number and create more devices. however, when creating devices be sure to do them consecutively. if you are missing any in the series, telnetd will stop searching at the last consecutive one. in other words, if you have /dev/ptyp* and /dev/ptyr* but you are missing /dev/ptyq*, you will only be able to use /dev/ptyp*. HTH, HAND. -- Dennis Moore jesus sewed my pants Pro Bono Devil's Advocate it's a love affair archon@EFnet irc mainly jesus http://forbidden.dough.net/ and my pants To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message