TELNET ERROR

[Arun Jain]

Dear All,

I am receiving this error on one server..

"telnetd[22708]: getpid: peer died: Error 0"

and sometimes when I try to telnet a server it shows:
"table over flow
connection to host lost"

kindly suggest

Regards:
Arun

[Ivan Krastev]

See this previous thread - http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1201869015297+28353475&threadId=501458


regards,
ivan

[TTr]

The "peer died" is normal but the "table overflow" is not. You need to increase the "nfiles" parameter in the kernel

[Ramesh S]

Hi

Recommended updating system with the latest HP recommended telnet, ARPA and LAN products patches (plus any required dependencies), then monitoring for any further problems.

If continue to see the "telnet getpid: peer died" messages logged to syslog.log after updating patches, advised identifying the client name or IP address associated with the message by enabling verbose connection logging with the command:

# inetd -l

With the -l option, the telnet client ip address or hostname will be logged to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log when the telnet client makes the connection and inetd starts the telnetd pid. When the getpid error is logged, can then check the pid number to see where the connection came from to troubleshoot further.

For table over flow error, you need to increase the "nfile" kernel parameter as already suggested.

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh