Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 02:05:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Richard Lucas <rlucas@threeh.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network problem? Message-ID: <20010709020344.X81776-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <994656927.3b49429fb2e45@www.mythreeh.com>
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If arp was trying to look up the IP address of each entry, and it couldn't, things would hang for a while until they time out. arp -a -n makes are only print numeric addresses. Sounds like you might have had a local DNS issue. ping -n would also be a good trick to see if that's the case. Joe Clarke Joe Clarke On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Richard Lucas wrote: > Quoting Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>: > > > If arp was hanging, it could be a DNS issue. You might try arp -a -n when > > you get things working again. Problems with DNS on the client side can > > often lead to connectivity issues where as server side DNS issues often > > manifest themselves as performance problems. > > The same machine also runs DNS, how would that come in to play with it? Will > remember the arp -a -n as I'd like to put that ethernet card back in. Right now > the only other card I had was an old 10MB isa card, it works for now but I'd > like to put the 10/100 pci card back in. > > > > > Glad things are working for you again. > > > > Thanks. :) > > > -Richard > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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