nnrpd given the same PID as innfeed

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi all,

Has someone ever seen "exit 1" lines for innfeed in your news.notice files?

Jun 15 17:37:14 news innd: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 48133 pid 4474



I have recently seen it a few times.  The problem is that during a fork,
nnrpd is given the PID of innfeed if I trust the logs:

Jun 15 17:37:14 news nnrpd[4474]: cpe-67-242-187-207.rochester.res.rr.com (67.242.187.207) connect - port 119
Jun 15 17:37:14 news nnrpd[4474]: cpe-67-242-187-207.rochester.res.rr.com rejected by rule (Closed service.)
Jun 15 17:37:14 news nnrpd[4474]: cpe-67-242-187-207.rochester.res.rr.com times user 0.032 system 0.016 idle 0.000 elapsed 0.036
Jun 15 17:37:14 news nnrpd[4474]: cpe-67-242-187-207.rochester.res.rr.com time 36 nntpwrite 0(1) 
Jun 15 17:37:14 news innd: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 48133 pid 4474


I don't know why it happens.  But the fact is it happens...

That issue always appears (at least on my system) when a user tries to connect very very often.
I blacklist such users in my readers.conf file, whence the "rejected by rule (Closed service.)".

% grep cpe-67-242-187-207.rochester.res.rr.com news.notice | grep connect | wc -l
14768

Now blacklisted directly in my iptables!


Maybe it is a bug in my old Debian Etch (2007) distrib...
If someone sees similar "exit 1" lines, please tell!

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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