telnetd error - peer died

[Tim Krego_2]

I am getting the following error in syslog.log every 2 minutes.

telnetd: getpid: peer died: Error 0

I am the only person that telnets to the machine. The box is a K460 running 11.00.

Any suggestions?

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

This generally means abnoraml termination of Telnet..

Look at this thread..

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=dacfb26b074f1d7564/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055018448

Goodluck,
-USA..

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Try inetd -l to get the IP Address of the telnet client. This could be due to intermittent network problems that caused the timeouts.

-Sri

[Tim Krego_2]

Thanks for the help.

I turned on inetd logging.

guppy inetd: Connection logging enabled
guppy inetd[3079]: telnet/tcp: Connection from unknown (65.160.118.4) at Wed Dec 5 11:14:26 2001
guppy telnetd[3079]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
guppy inetd[3116]: registrar/tcp: Connection from guppy (192.168.1.30) at Wed Dec 5 11:14:49 2001
guppy inetd[3388]: telnet/tcp: Connection from unknown (65.160.118.4) at Wed Dec 5 11:16:14 2001
guppy telnetd[3388]: getpid: peer died: Error 0

The Kbox (192.168.1.30) is located at another site behind a firewall. My machine at the office goes out on Cisco PIX firewall (65.160.118.4).

Could this be a firewall issue? My syslog.log is flooded with the peer died error.

[Tim Krego_2]

Maybe I should add that the errors are happening even when I don't have a telnet connection open to the server.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

If this is not a router issue, you probably got a memory leak problem on the telnetd. Check on your K if you got this patch :-
PHNE_22159 (telnet kernel and telnetd patch)

[Tim Krego_2]

I went into SAM and don't see the patch you listed as being installed.

The last patch bundle on this machine was the June 2000 patches. I'm waiting for my sandbox machine to arrive so I can test before I make any changes to the production machine.

Thanks again,
Tim

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I am not really sure if it is a memory leak problem with the telnetd. Are you getting peer died messages for every telnet connection?. guppy seems to be ok. Looks like the connections through the firewall are getting died.

So, this may be the firewall that is timing out/breaking the connections. Check the logs on the firewall.

-Sri

[Brian Watkins]

There is a telnetd patch available that may help resolve this.

Patch PHNE_24829 (HP-UX 11i)
Patch PHNE_26096 (HP-UX 11.0)

Refer to the associated patch documentation for installation instructions and the symptoms this patch was created to resolve.

Hope this helps,

Brian