Re: Network problem (Connection refused) with 2.0.33?

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:40:43 -0600 (CST)

Once upon a time, Alan Cox wrote
> > Jan 14 15:59:23 sh1 sendmail[832]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: No route to host
>
> > after the connections are refused sometimes (even when connecting from
> > the same system). Also, the monitoring program that checks dns, web,
>
> Default sendmail behaviour is to sleep a few seconds after an accept failure.
> Dont ask me why - run exim or take the silly sendmail thing out (I thought
> it was gone in 8.8.7 anyway)

I just found that line in sendmail (8.8.8): daemon.c line 335 does a
"sleep(5)" after accept fails.

I can fix that, but why does it fail in the first place? And what about
FTP? I don't think inetd has the same behavoir as sendmail, and why
would they fail at the same time (but nothing else on the system)?
Could another program be interfering with them?

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.