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From: jude@nas.nasa.gov (Jude A. George)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: posting spawns off multiple nntpd's
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.180822.10876@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Aug 90 18:08:22 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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I have just set up an NNTP server.  Occasionally when I attempt to post
(using rn) from a machine other than the server machine, dozens of
additional nntpd and inews processes are forked on the server.  This only
happens when I actually try to post an article; when rn is first started up,
there is only the usual 1 nntpd process.

Perhaps the problem is with my inetd.conf?  The entry looks like this:

nntp    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /etc/nntpd              nntpd

A netstat seems to indicate that all of the extra nntpd's are connecting
to *themselves*:

tcp        0      0  nameserver.nntp        nameserver.2256        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  nameserver.2256        nameserver.nntp        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  nameserver.nntp        nameserver.2255        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  nameserver.2255        nameserver.nntp        ESTABLISHED
etc.

I don't think the problem is with rn, since the other machines are using
the same version of rn as the server.

The server is running on a Sun 4 with SunOS 4.0.3.  It was not compiled
with the ALONE flag.  Has anyone had problems similar to this?

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