From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 3:35: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E9C37B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 03:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13yBhR-000KyN-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:34:57 +0000 Received: from localhost (proffitt@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA35583 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:34:54 GMT (envelope-from proffitt@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:34:50 +0000 (GMT) From: David Proffitt To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ping OK, daemons dead ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> you'd probibly be better off writing a script that will > just restart the > >> daemons that are dying on you, Try chkdeamon from http://www.armory.com/~ftp/#admin/ I've been running it for some time (under solaris ;-) and it seems to work fine > > acid2:/1/home/skin$ telnet mymachine.nl > > Trying 212.104.204.x... > > Connected to mymachine.nl. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > > > So the daemon ain't dead... Do you eventually get a login prompt (after about 40 seconds) If so it may be trying (and failing) to do a DNS lookup on the inncoming host David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message