From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) I see the following in /var/log/messages: Feb 11 14:32:48 localhost xinetd[31467]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62934 Feb 11 14:32:55 localhost xinetd[31468]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62935 Feb 11 14:33:48 localhost xinetd[31470]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62936 Feb 11 14:33:55 localhost xinetd[31471]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62937 Feb 11 14:34:48 localhost xinetd[31472]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62938 Feb 11 14:34:55 localhost xinetd[31473]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62939 Feb 11 14:35:48 localhost xinetd[31474]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62940 Feb 11 14:35:55 localhost xinetd[31475]: Bad line received from identity server at 24.1.1 35.39: 62941 and it goes on and on, port after port with no end. The host in question is a trusted POP client, but this seems to be unrelated to the timing of any POP requests. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start xinetd 2. wait 3. look in logs
The reason for this is probably a bad response from the ident server at the machine. If you don't want to see this, remove this from the logging options in the configuration file for the pop service.