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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:07:21 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
To:        chip.wiegand@simrad.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smbd and network connectivity
Message-ID:  <3B213079.18E2B18D@iowna.com>
References:  <41256A65.00663C13.00@mail.simrad.no>

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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?

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