On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Dean Brooks wrote:
> It may be some sort of OS descriptor resource running low, since
> clearly the "smtp" port is well defined in /etc/services.
Running out of file descriptors would presumably do that, since it would
need a file descriptor to access /etc/services.
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