Mail and finger problems

[Chuck Peters <debian@linux.ccil.org>]

I received a disturbing report that the mail port is intermitingly
working.  Is this a serious bug or what?

jh 17:08:37 ~ $ ifconfig ep0; telnet linux.axs.org smtp
ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 205.216.162.143 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 205.216.162.255
        ether 00:20:af:db:d7:9a 
Trying 192.190.237.130...
Connected to linux.axs.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 linux.ccil.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 
20:53:23 -0500
quit
221 linux.ccil.org closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
jh 17:08:40 ~ $ 


It looks like we have a problem with finger as well.

finger fredb@linux.ccil.org
[linux.ccil.org]
500:The name given for the Common DUA is not a known socket name.


Thanks,
Chuck