Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/7370: ftp client problem Message-ID: <199807232010.NAA15517@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/7370; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie> To: grg@isabase.philol.msu.ru, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: bin/7370: ftp client problem Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:55:21 +0000 On Jul 22, 10:49pm, Grigoriy Strokin wrote: } Subject: bin/7370: ftp client problem > > ftp client fails to connect to some hosts giving the message > "inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense". > >How-To-Repeat: > (not always): > ftp ftp.radio-msu.net This is actually a problem with the remote host, inetd is sending that message when it can't fork off a ftpd server to handle your incoming request. Unfortunately, no-one knows why the above happens, see kern/6858, current theories include unchecked memory allocation in libc and kernel VM bugs. Does this problem manifest itself under any particular conditions that you can isolate? Niall -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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