Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:13:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: Mary Kay <mkay1971@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems accepting TCP connections Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110111212080.36899-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F544SvcDfSDGAI00001225@hotmail.com>
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> Hi, > > I am trying to setup a FreeBSD box to serve as an anonymous ftp server. > Everything works well, but at some point (8-12 hours or so) I start having > unexplained problems with connectivity to the FreeBSD box. These do not > seem to be load issues as the box is normally under very low load. [ snip ] > I can ping the box fine. I can connect to it using telnet although it takes > a painfully long time to get the login prompt (1-2 minutes). Also of note > when the box gets into this state is that a "netstat -a" or > "arp -a" will also take an excruciatingly long time to complete. A warm > boot does not seem to clear the problem but a cold boot does. Does this > sound like some sort of NIC/driver combination issue? Sounds more like a DNS issue. Check to see if 'arp -an' and 'netstat -an' complete quickly. If they do, then your DNS isn't properly set up. Check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure that any local instances of named are properly configured and running. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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