user/2846: ftpd - cant open passive connection: cant assign requested address.

From: <veins(at)skreel.org>
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 18:38:34 EST

>Number: 2846
>Category: user
>Synopsis: cant open passive connection: cant assign requested address.
>Confidential: no
net
>Environment:
        

	System      : OpenBSD 3.0
	Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
	Machine     : i386

>Description:

We have been running the ftpd for over a year without a problem, but since a few days, for no apparent reason, people start getting the following error: cant open passive connection: cant assign requested address. They sent me logs from their ftp client and the log shows no abnormal command and everything seems pretty normal.
>How-To-Repeat:

Don't know how to repeat since the cases are isolated (about 10/1000 persons suffer from this)
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
Received on Thu Nov 7 15:12:51 2002