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_at_bellsouth.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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Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 09:05:17 GMT