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To: Soren Dossing <sauber@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: ftp/tcp server failing (looping) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:34:54 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:34:17 -0800
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>After approx. 250 sessions, my ftp server terminates temporarily with this
>message: 
>
>Feb 10 12:14:01 host inetd[99]: ftp/tcp server failing (looping), service
>terminated
>
>After this it refuses to accept any ftp connects for a few minutes. Why ? 
>And how do I solve it ? 
>
>I run freebsd-2.2-beta. The sessions are all from the same computer
>downloading the same file from the server over and over again.

   Check out the -R option to inetd. A better solution is to use the non-inetd
exec'd form of ftpd (see the -D option); be sure to comment out ftpd from
inetd.conf if you decide to use that option.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project