Quick question

[Dan Nguyen]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
>
> Any ideas from anyone on why my linux machine takes forever to
> accept Telnet and FTP connections. Once it actually accepts the
> connection, it flies, and apache never seems to stall on initial
> connection. It just stalls. I'm running Redhat 7 with 128 MB of
> RAM. I was thinking it is a RAM problem (not enough), but the box
> isn't doing that much most of the day. Would apmd do something like
> this without me telling it to? Any ideas would be helpful.
>

One reason is that generally telnetd and ftpd are run via inetd.  Apache
on the other hand binds itself to port 80. 

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