On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Marco Leone wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 12:12:02 +0100
> From: Marco Leone <mleone@neomedia.it>
> To: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: ftpd halt
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> a strange (for me) problem occured today on my i386 NetBSD 1.2 box.
> 
> I use wu-ftpd 2.4.2 beta 12.
> While testing Homesite 3.0 my ftpd crashed. 
> 
> inetd[160]: ftp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
> 
> Ftpd was receiving 6/10 connection per second from Homesite.
> 
> I looked at the inetd.conf and ftpd service has been commented!
> 
> Is it ok? Is there a reference for this? Docs?
> 
> Any info will be appreciated.
> TIA.

I've had very similar problems, and for me they've all stemmed from a
hard-coded limit of how many connections per (time unit) were compiled
into inetd.conf. Usually I just had to recompile inetd to remove the
problem--and again, all my problems stemmed from high-usage servers being
started up by inetd.

hope this helps--just get the source for inetd and recompile it after
editing the source to increase the maximum number of allowed connections
per second. (Actually I think it's hour or minute or something.)

marc