From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 13: 9:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7468A37B403 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 16890 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2001 20:18:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 8 Jun 2001 20:18:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3B213079.18E2B18D@iowna.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:07:21 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smbd and network connectivity References: <41256A65.00663C13.00@mail.simrad.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Off the cuff, my theory would be: Did your DNS server become inaccessible because of the router failuer? I believe smbd (like most good daemons) does a reverse lookup on every request that comes in (to log - so spoofing can be detected) and therefore, any problem accessing the DNS server would cause massive delays in network services. Just one theory. chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > > I recently posted a message about some strange happenings on my network in > regards to connectivity. And smbd was not working also. Well, it's all working > again, > but I am curious about why a down internet connection would prevent smbd from > working? I can see how it would prevent sendmail from not working, but not smbd. > Afterall, what's the internet connection have to do with the smbd/internal > network? > (The problem with the internet connection was a corrupted access list in the > cisco > router - somehow the permissions got changed, or mangled.) > Can anyone enlighten me? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message