tftpd

[lastgreatone]

/etc/inetd.conf is configured with ignite/ux tftpd with following:
tftp dgram udp wait root/usr/lbin/tftpd tftpd /opt/ignite /var/opt/ignite
syslog logs tftpd running and timing out tftpd: timeout (no requests in 10 minutes)
I have turned on inetd logging and syslog logs following:
tftpd registrar/tfp : connection from at Wed Oct 17 .
It looks that the is probing it's own port 69!

[paul courry]

What have you got in /etc/services for tftp?

[lastgreatone]

tftp 69/udp

[Wodisch]

Hello Franie,

is your a BOOTP-helper?

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

[lastgreatone]

wrong answer.....but nice try
no it is not a bootp server

...interestingly enough I now notice (with inetd -l) a 'connection from unknown' ip address in syslog and am checking this out, may be the culprit!

could it be a dns bootp server probing this server? but the ip address is not in our segment!!! I welcome any other clues.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Frankie,

Try manuall doing a tftp from another system.

tftp your_ignite_server

tftp>get
INDEX test_file

See if this works. tftp should pickup the INDEX file from /var/opt/ignite as specified in your /etc/inetd.conf.

Also check your /var/adm/inetd.sec to see if you are blocking tftp for some systems.

-Sri

[lastgreatone]

I ran from tftp
get
INDEX test_file

and it returned
Error code 2: Access violation !!

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Check the permissions of your /opt/ignite/
/var/opt/ignite to make sure that they have read permissions atleast. Also files like INDEX should also have read permissions for others so that tftp can download the files.

Access violation tells that the files are not readable by tftp.

Try setting the permissions and see if it works.

-Sri

[lastgreatone]

all permissions are set at minimum, read.

Maybe I should simply disable tftpd on the oracle db servers. Should I need to ignite one of these servers, due to system failure, a push boot from the ignite server should resolve itself, correct? As for creating a network system recovery, that should not be a problem either.