Hi, We recently experienced a bug on berlin.guix where we’d be locked out of SSH access because shepherd (0.9.1) would say that the maximum connection number on the sshd inetd service had been reached. That threshold is a feature (see ‘max-connections’ in ) but there’s a possibility in this case that a bug in ‘make-inetd-constructor’ or thereabout led it to get a wrong idea of the number of active connections. Unfortunately, we lack syslogs that would give us info about the time where inetd connections started accumulating¹. I tried to come up with a scenario that could lead to that problem with the test below, to no avail. If you’ve experienced something similar, or if you noticed that ‘sshd-*’ services have accumulated on a server of yours, please let us know! Thanks, Ludo’. ¹ That, in turn, was a bug in the rottlog default config, fixed in e5a6900baf758a12024283171bf45f2fe90121ee.