[Info-vax] TCPIP tying up system

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <icrv79$ned$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> And if you do "$ SHOW ACCOUNTING", you do have
> "LOGIN_FAILURE"  in the list of enabled activities ?

Yes.

> If you do "$ tcpip show service smtp/full", what does
> "Peak: nn" say ?

10

> Changing/lowering "Limit:" might at least prevent your
> system to lock up.

Limit is also 10.

> Do you have any "TCPIP-W-SMTP_xxxxx" messages in OPERATOR.LOG ?
> Sauch as :
> 
>  > %TCPIP-W-SMTP_NOSPAMRLY, Rejected relay to <wazm01 at sohu.com>
>     from client IP address 121.13.54.130 as suspected SPAM

Yes, but all seem to be of the form 

   TCPIP-W-SMTP_CLNTINRBL, client IP address 122.161.124.151 matched RBL list

I suspect it was SSH and not TCPIP which was causing the problem.