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     Re: Error 98 - Telnet Port 23 Locking   
     By: Waveyuk to All on Sat Jan 31 2026 05:43 pm   
      
    > 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   
      
   It wouldn't be "for no reason at all", most likely there was a configuration   
   file change made and the server is recycling to bring in those configuration   
   changes. The log output would tell you why.   
      
    > 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?   
      
   Covered in this FAQ (with solution):   
   https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#rebind   
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