>   Nov  4 17:37:58 goofy inetd[93]: teleporter/tcp server failing (looping),
>                   service terminated
> 
> After this, my syslog is flooded with
> 
>   Nov  4 17:47:58 goofy inetd[93]: teleporter/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> 
> The only way to make the server work again is to reboot the system. What is
> my server doing wrong?  It shouldn't be 'looping' in any way - it is possible
> that lots of server processes are started within a short period of time, but
> this can't be helped.

Please try changing your inetd.conf from
	teleporter	stream tcp	wait	....
to
	teleporter	stream tcp	wait.100  ....
					    ~~~~
			increase this value, if this is not sufficient

See inetd(8) man page for detail...
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