From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 19:13:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA01088 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01078 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:13:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id WAA05988; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:13:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id WAA13142; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:13:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:13:29 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@mocha.eng.umd.edu To: Gary Kline cc: kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... In-Reply-To: <9601040243.AA03101@tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Chuck Robey: > > > > On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Last Sunday I managed to auto-retrieve the file cnews.tar.Z > > > by typing ``make'' in the /cdrom/ports dir. Now, while trying > > > to build elm, this happened: > > > > [[ ... ]] > > > > > > > What did I do? I remember adding some lines to /etc/sysconfig and > > > two new sites to /etc/resolv.conf. When I do a `ps ax' I see > > > ncftp trying to retrieve the elm tar file... [some deletions] > > > > > > Ideas, net gurus??? > > Hm, well, I can't say that this makes much sense > [[ the netstat -rn ]]. Gary, the -rn forces netstat not to try to present the routes as names. If your connection to your nameserver is shaky, and you don't give the -rn flag, you'll just get a timeout, no data. Anyhow, using the 4 nameservers I see in your supplied list, I just did a nslookup on them, and 3 out of 4 failed. If you had a short term failure of all four when you had your lookup problem you noted above, well, that would do it. Maybe you might want to add a reliable backup namerserver to your list? [all the test data deleted] > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: