On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:42:28PM +0200, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 c714553@vus415.telstra.com.au wrote:
> 
> > This works OK for a short time, then the receiving machine comes out with
> > messages like:
> >    rshd[22090]: connect second port 859: Connection refused
> 
> Interesting. I run a NetBSD/i386 1.3.3 box as a busy FTP server. The FTP 
> server (wu-ftpd) is run from inetd.
> 
> I see the exact same behaviour. Every now and then new FTP connections are
> refused and I have to 'kill -HUP' inetd. The strange thing is that when
> this problem occurs I can still telnet into the box... so I always thought
> it was a problem with wu-ftpd.

Did you bump the max connextions per minutes ?

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