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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: "Fixed" telnetd hasn't helped things
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.063150.4549@panix.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 06:31:50 GMT
- References: <REUVEN.92Aug11204401@e40-008-10.mit.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- reuven@athena.mit.edu (Reuven M. Lerner) writes:
- >Does anyone know if the fixed version of telnetd, as posted on
- >wuarchive, fixes all of the problems associated with it?
-
- Yes. It does.
-
- Except... It doesn't handle telnet synch properly. Also, transparency doesn't
- seem to be completely transparent. But it general it's far far better than
- the disaster that ships with 3.0. Get it and use it, you'll be glad you did.
-
- >My A/UX box (3.0, running on a IIfx with 20 MB RAM and 160+80+80 MB
- >hard drives) receives about 20 telnet connections per day, although
- >never more than two or three at a time. For the most part, it works
- >just fine. Every three or four days, though, incoming telnets (and
- >rlogins, for that matter) slow down considerably. After four or five
- >days, the system gets so slow that I have to reboot it, at which point
- >it works fine again. Non-telnet ports (sendmail and ftp, for example)
- >don't seem to be affected.
-
- >I thought that the new telnetd was supposed to clear up these
- >problems, but they haven't gone away since I installed it last week.
-
- >Does this have anything to do with my configuration? Or is the "fixed"
- >version of telnetd not as fixed as it could be?
-
- Hm, actually it sounds like you've got a different problem than the one the
- wuarchive telnet is supposed to fix. I recommend that you fiddle with various
- kernel parameters.
-
- This machine accepts hundreds of telnet connections daily, without the problem
- you describe...
-
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