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From: anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo)
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Subject: Re: makeconnection: server "smtp" unknown: Address already in use
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Date: 9 Apr 91 15:19:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: negaret@cicb.fr's message of 2 Apr 91 14:27:31 GMT

>>>>> On 2 Apr 91 14:27:31 GMT, negaret@cicb.fr (Roger Negaret - CICB Rennes 99.36.20.00) said:

>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 451 makeconnection: server "smtp" unknown: Address already in use
> 554 cicb (ether)... 554 System file missing
> 554 picheral@CICB.FR... System file missing

I've seen this error message when a YP/NIS server doesn't respond in
time, and getservbyname() returns an error.  Usually it's because a
faster machine has done a ypbind to a slow (typically overloaded)
machine,
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Ed Anselmo   anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu   {harvard,cmcl2}!yale!anselmo-ed