Re: System freezes after "could not getpeername"

Harsha Chenji <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:26:09 -0500
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On 8/27/2010 5:21 PM, Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Inetd "invokes all internet services as needed.  connection-oriented
> services are invoked each time a connection is made, by creating a
> process.  This process is passed the connection as file descriptor 0
> and is expected to do a getpeername to find out the source host and
> port." (from inetd.c)
>
> So it looks like these messages are written at boottime.  Is that correct?
>
> What's the date on inetd.conf?  Any changes there?
>
> What flavour + version of linux are you running?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta
>
> On 27 August 2010 19:59, Andreas Moroder<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we have a old  2.4.19-64GB-SMP server. Today it freezed twice and me had to reboot via sysreq.
>>
>> In messages I found
>>
>> Aug 27 17:22:08 galileo2 -- MARK --
>> Aug 27 17:38:01 galileo2 inetd[1397]: could not getpeername
>> Aug 27 17:38:08 galileo2 inetd[1397]: could not getpeername
>> Aug 27 17:39:34 galileo2 last message repeated 2 times
>> Aug 27 17:46:52 galileo2 inetd[1397]: could not getpeername
>> Aug 27 18:20:41 galileo2 -- MARK --
>> Aug 27 18:07:52 galileo2 inetd[1397]: could not getpeername
>> Aug 27 18:07:59 galileo2 last message repeated 6 times
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me what could be the reason for this error ?
>> Is this a DNS problem or a file-nr problem ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Andreas
>>
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