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From: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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Subject: ftp client problem
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>Number:         7370
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ftp client fails to connect
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 22 12:00:01 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Wed Sep 16 11:08:56 MDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Sep 16 11:09:27 MDT 1998
>Originator:     Grigoriy Strokin
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-980520-SNAP i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

ftp client fails to connect to some hosts giving the message
"inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense".


>How-To-Repeat:
(not always):
ftp ftp.radio-msu.net

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To: grg@isabase.philol.msu.ru, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/7370: ftp client problem
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:55:21 +0000

 On Jul 22, 10:49pm, Grigoriy Strokin wrote:
 } Subject: bin/7370: ftp client problem
 > 
 > ftp client fails to connect to some hosts giving the message
 > "inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense".
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > (not always):
 > ftp ftp.radio-msu.net
 
 This is actually a problem with the remote host, inetd is sending
 that message when it can't fork off a ftpd server to handle your
 incoming request.  Unfortunately, no-one knows why the above happens,
 see kern/6858,  current theories include unchecked memory allocation
 in libc and kernel VM bugs.  Does this problem manifest itself
 under any particular conditions that you can isolate?
 
 Niall
 
 -- 
 Niall Smart.        PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk
 FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: imp 
State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 16 11:08:56 MDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
The audit trail says this is a problem with the remote host, so it isn't 
a bug in ftp. 
>Unformatted:
