some questions

[Russ Allbery]

Olaf Titz <olaf at bigred.inka.de> writes:

> What's wrong with running nnrpd from inetd? I've done this without
> problems for some amount of time. Looks to me the -D mode is not
> strictly necessary.

inetd on most systems has a nasty habit of deciding that there are too
many connections per second to a particular service and refusing to spawn
any more instances of that service.  nnrpd under tcpserver would work
fine, though.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>