20 Nov
2003
20 Nov
'03
1:05 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, David Holland wrote:
Looks to me like mx01.mail.bellsouth.net's smtp
server is
overloaded/unreachable/down/etc.
><dogas(a)bellsouth.net>h.net>... Deferred: Bad file number
>Reporting-MTA: dns; ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com
>Remote-MTA: DNS; mx01.mail.bellsouth.net
yeah, the kernel (or the smtp server process itself) ran out
of usable file descriptors, so too many open files. Which
probably means too many server-side SMTP sockets, meaning
someone DOS'd it.
(willingly or not ;-)
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