From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 17:23:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web2.sea.nwserv.com (web2.sea.nwserv.com [216.145.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE2B37BA45 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 17:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from localhost (jfreeze@localhost) by web2.sea.nwserv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA45627 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 17:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 17:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jfreeze@web2.sea.nwserv.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mysterious network hangs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Envelope-To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am using FBSD 3.4R and am setup with @home cable network. I have had this setup for about a week and things were mostly fine. But today, I started getting network hangs (netscape 4.72 was running in each case). The symptoms are that I can ping my local machine and localhost, but I cannot ping even my dns servers. I thought the problem might be with @home, but they were no help on the phone - once they found out I was not on a windows box their brain froze up. I think that it 'might' be netscape and freebsd related. I can solve the problem by rebooting fbsd. One time it only worked for about 1 minute after rebooting. One time it worked for about 1 hour after rebooting. One thing I don't like is that I have to reboot. I shouldn't have to reboot - is that right? I tried 'kill -1' the following: inetd syslogd dhcclient sendmail apache sshd but no luck. I even killed netscape (-9) and it's dhc buddy. Is there some test that I can perform to monitor the health of my network? Would kill -9 inetd and then restarting it be the same as rebooting? Thanks ============================================ Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org www.freeze.org -------------- Save on CDs, DVDs and Books till May 31 2000 $10 Off a purchase of $30 and $33 Off a purchase of $100. Visit www.freeze.org ============================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message