hi ronald,
sounds like a buggy nic to me. how about replacing that nic?
fooler.
Ronald Warner wrote:
> users will telnet; login screen will appear after almost a minute
> delay and after logging in the username and password, there is
> another delay. Remote disconnection will occur afterwards.
>
> I examined /var/log/messages.log and there are several entries with
> the following:
> telnetd[21893]: ttloop: peer died: EOF
> inetd[527]: pid 21893: exit status 1
>
> Here are the things I did to try to solve the problem:
> - restarted inetd
> - stopped and started inetd
> - restarted the server (seems to be not a good idea)
> - refreshed telnet-server rpm
> - removed and re-installed telnet-server rpm
>
> nothing seems to work.
>
> then in the logs, I noticed the following entry:
> telnet/tcp server failing (looping or being flooded), service
> terminated for 10 minutes...
>
> in short the telnet server is being flooded; a sort of denial-of-service
> attack but by whom I don't know... perhaps it's the number of
> users trying to login all at the same time... or maybe it is being
> done on purpose... that's just a guess anyway...
>
> does anyone know what is happenning? and what action should be taken.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
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