auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use

John Steele steele at dfw.nostrum.com
Sun Feb 27 04:29:54 UTC 2000


That error has nothing to do with BIND.  The "bind" in the error means
that, when inetd tried to "bind" (ie, grab, lay claim, etc) to that port,
something else was already using it.

If you have lsof on your system, you can see what's bound to port 113
by running "lsof -i :113".  (You'll probably have to run that as root,
depending on how lsof was configured at compile-time.)

You should see something like:
  
root# lsof -i :113
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
inetd   332 root   12u  inet    203       TCP *:auth (LISTEN)

You also might want to look over /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/system to make
sure you're not trying to run two things on the same port by mistake.

--John


"Jonathan Marks" Wrote: 
>Date:    Sat, 26 Feb 2000 16:17:18 -0800
>From:    "Jonathan Marks" <jon.marks at novatek.co.nz>
>To:      bind-users at isc.org
>Subject: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
> 
>Hi People
>
>I get this message in my messages file (Linux 2.2.14): every 10mins.
>
>Feb 26 16:11:01 henry inetd[497]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>
>To me it looks like bind takes over port 113 which in.identd wants to use.
>I confirmed this by running in.identd from the command line and got the  
>following in my messages file.
>
>Feb 26 16:04:08 henry in.identd[2135]: bind(port=113) failed: Address already 
>in use
>
>What can I do to get rid of this message and get identd and named to co-exist 
>happliy?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan.
>
>   Everything in moderation, including excess.
>
>Jonathan Marks, http://www.novatek.co.nz
>11360 Clipper Court, Richmond, B.C. V73 4M3, Canada
>Tel:(604) 274-2277, (604) 805-4035. Fax: (707) 221-3689 
>
>


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