Oh man thank you so much!

I have been working on this switch over all night!  The turn up on NetBSD
from an SGI went great!  Then the users started POPing in. 5:00am 1 or two
every so often, but then 8:00am came...

The reason I suspected DNS issues, was because I kept getting, in the
message log:
Dec 28 09:56:02 mail inetd[28362]: warning: can't verify hostname:
gethostbyname2(pc32.midamerica.net, 2) failed

Because my predicessor's didn't believe in trying to maintane RR.

I learned something new....

John Maier
Administrator
Midamerica Internet Services
573-446-8881
http://www.midamerica.net
ICQ# 38643380


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Sommerfeld" <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To: "John Maier" <jmaier@midamerica.net>
Cc: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: inetd terminating!!


> > Dec 28 09:28:44 mail inetd[22189]: pop3/tcp server failing (looping),
> > service terminated
>
> NetBSD doesn't include a pop3 server in the base configuration; which
> POP server are you using?
>
> > This REALLY is bad.  because nobody can get POP mail and I have to
> > constantly hup inetd.
>
> see inetd(8)
>
>      ...
>      wait/nowait[.max]
>      ...
>
>      The optional
>      ``max'' suffix (separated from ``wait'' or ``nowait'' by a dot)
specifies
>      the maximum number of server instances that may be spawned from inetd
>      within an interval of 60 seconds. When omitted, ``max'' defaults
>      to 40.
>
> I'm guessing you're getting more than 40 POP connections per minute..
>
> > How do I get inetd to stop trying to check IPs?
>
> What makes you think that it's failing because it's attempting to
> "check IPs"?
>
> - Bill
>