Date: 27 Oct 2002 09:49:45 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Dan Kalowsky <kalowsky@cs.jhu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine disappearance after upgrade 4.7 Message-ID: <444rb89bsm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <5EC67568-E81D-11D6-ADD5-000393121960@cs.jhu.edu> References: <5EC67568-E81D-11D6-ADD5-000393121960@cs.jhu.edu>
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Dan Kalowsky <kalowsky@cs.jhu.edu> writes: > Hopefully someone can give me a pointer or two here. A normally > extremely stable machine running FreeBSD has become rather unstable > after upgrading to the 4.7 release. > > By unstable I mean disappearing off the network suddenly, and having > console non-responsive to anything but a nice ctl-alt-del reboot. The > log files only show one thing that may be of issue: > > > Oct 25 01:05:48 x-wing /kernel: arplookup 207.8.132.194 failed: host > > is not on local network > > Oct 25 01:36:27 x-wing /kernel: arplookup 207.8.132.194 failed: host > > is not on local network So is 207.8.132.194 on the local subnet or not? > Right before the machine disappears, these messages start repeating > rather rapidly to the tune of one about ever 5 seconds. This behavior > was not seen in any of the earlier FreeBSD releases. The said IP > address is the IP for the nameserver of the cluster group, which is > responding just fine to requests. A quick search of the archives > reveals nothing thats of any help to me so... > > Have I somehow misconfigured my upgrade, and if so any suggestions on > what to fix or where to begin looking? Or have I stumbled upon a > legit bug? Those messages generally indicate a networking configuration problem, but locking up a machine with such a problem would be hard (not impossible, though, because that part of the IP stack is inside the kernel). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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