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From: wrl@wdl1.wdl.fac.com (Bill Lewandowski)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: How to time-out nntp connections
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Date: 20 Nov 90 23:58:32 GMT
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Background: NNTP1.5.10 sun 3/280 4.0.3

Hi,
I have a sun server which is our news master. I have 100
nntp clients who get there news from the server.

We have been running into problems where inetd locks
new connections out (telnet,rlogin) until someone
logs off. We think we have hit some type of process table
limit. We have done some tweaking but no-go.

The only thing we notice is that there are upto 20 nntp connections
open at one time sitting idle. People are just leaving
rn,trn,xrn,nn etc open even though there are not reading news.

Question:
Is there a way to time out these connections after so much idle
time connected to the nntp port (119) for these users ???

Thanks,
Bill
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