Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:20:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: NOC-IPAD <sysadmin@greeves.mfn.org>, "'FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG'" <FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Network errors (was: Homesick Nameserver...) Message-ID: <19980707112015.Z7792@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BDA8C5.B16FCDC0@noc.mfn.org>; from NOC-IPAD on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:06:06AM -0500 References: <01BDA8C5.B16FCDC0@noc.mfn.org>
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On Monday, 6 July 1998 at 10:06:06 -0500, NOC-IPAD wrote: > Hey, How's everyone doing? Doug, you awake for this one? > Greg, Julian, You paying attention? I have *the* strange story > of the decade for you... > > We set up a new backup system here over the weekend, using > a universally mounted NFS/SAMBA solution. Really neat. And > it works great. I can back up the entire network in under an hour, > seven days a week! But, I digress.. > > Every machine on the network mounts this 4g partition, and does > a dump to it. So, to make life easier, we of course put this mount > into each hosts fstab. No problems on any of them, *except* for > our "homesick" nameserver. Nevertheless, here is what the line > looks like (in *every* host): > > greeves:/backup /backup nfs rw 2 2 > > So, back to our problem. When boot time comes around, this > *one* machine: > > (a) complains about an RPC timeout, and will do it forever unless > stopped with a control-c (obviously, aborting the /backup mount), > > and > > (b) attempts to send approximately 500 (yes, that's five _hundred_) > "Network Unreachable" messages to 204.216.27.18 - "hub.freebsd.org"! > > At first (until I looked up the IP addy) I thought this machine had been > compromised, and was sending a notice to it's new "owner". I am about > at the point of being ready to just reload this guy and call it a day, > but before I do, anyone have any ideas??? Let's see the output of netstat -i, netstat -r and ifconfig -a. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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