> At 09:07 PM 10/15/99 JAVT, Hari W. wrote [in part]:
> >> >
> >> >Here a question from new-born-newbie :
> >> >I try to telnet to my own terminal but it goes like this,
> >> >{
> >> >Trying 100.100.150.151....
> >> >Connected to 100.100.150.151....
> >> >Escape character is '^]'.
> >> >telnetd : All network port in use.
> >> >Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Since you get a message from telnetd, it is unlikely that you have a problem
> at the inetd level. If we take the error message seriously, it means that
> telnetd can't find a free port to bind to in order to establish the
> connection. Since there are more than 65,000 ports available, it is
> improbable that they are all really in use, so this error means something
> else. For some reason, telnetd cannot bind to a port.
I used to get this error on a heavily used box a few months ago. It turned
out it was because there was not enough /dev/ttyp's (or pts's).
I created a few more & the problem went away.
HTH
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Tel C
