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  • Error 98 - Telnet Port 23 Locking

    From Waveyuk@1:103/705 to All on Sat Jan 31 17:43:16 2026
    Hi!

    Yup, me again. I swear you're all going to get sick of me posting haha!

    Just a very strange one. So, running the BBS (V3.20d) on Linux and Telnet port 23. Every now and again, for no reason at all it seems when someone logs off all the nodes go down and I get the message:

    !Error 98 binding Telnet server socket to port 23: Address already in use

    I've checked and the server isn't running anything like an inetd service. Synchronet is the only service bound to port 23. Yet it seems to get it's knickers in a right twist and for about 60 seconds, nobody can log into the BBS as port 23 is locked.

    Any ideas, pointers, something obvious I might have missed?

    Thanks
    Dave

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