From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 02:06:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA11264 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trinity.radio-do.de (fn@trinity.Radio-do.de [193.101.164.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA11234 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by trinity.radio-do.de (8.7.5/CLIENT-1.2.7-h) via EUnet id LAA05527; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:06:22 +0200 (MET DST) To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tweaking FreeBSD (2.1) and sendmail for a busy site? Or maybe, Help! , No more sendmail's. References: From: Frank Nobis Date: 22 Sep 1996 11:06:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jaye Mathisen's message of Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.39/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jaye" == Jaye Mathisen writes: Jaye> If you'll note in the original message, la is not the issue. Jaye> The load rarely climbs over 1.0. This is something to do Jaye> with # of processes. Oops, I should read a little more than just the subject :-) Jaye> I point out to that it appears that if la was the issue, Jaye> there would be Connection Refused, rather than no connection Jaye> at all. Just an other thought; Do you receive SYN's at a very fast rate in that case? Maybe it is the same problem that described in the latest SYN Flood vulnerability. Regards Frank -- Frank Nobis Email: fn@Radio-do.de PGP AVAILABLE Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ 44139 Dortmund Powered by FreeBSD Fax: +49 231 7213816