getpid: peer died: Error 0

[ITeam]

Hi.

I have a customer with the above error on their L3000 server running HPUX 11.00. This is reported on the console & in syslog.log regularly. I have read the article on why this occurs & have enabled verbose logging (inetd -l) in syslog.log. Subsequently, I received:

telnet/tcp: Connection from unknown (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn).

This brought up at least 4 ip addresses including the following devices: 2 x Win NT PCs, 1 Cisco switch & a laptop. None of these should be regularly opening telnet sessions to the server. Is there anything else I can check?

Thanks in advance.

David.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi David,

Check this doc.

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079999276

Title: How To: Troubleshoot telnet on HPUX
Document ID: KBRC00014017

section 3 "3. Delayed or Missing login: "

Hope this helps
Robert-Jan

[Stephen Keane]

Worth checking that you don't have a duplicate IP address in your network.

[Derek Whigham_1]

This is almost always a virus on the windows systems , Switch is a redherring, Check that the PC's are upto date and have a virus scan done, HP-UX does not get windows viruses

See this Thread

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=679219

[ITeam]

The customer has verified that all AV software is up-to-date & they have no viruses on their network. We are currently monitoring their network to get to the bottom of this.

[ITeam]

Hi.

Customer has network issues that are probably causing this. They are planning changes to their network. As a result, I will close this thread.

Thanks.