From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 14:24:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF74016A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:24:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephanweaver@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (bay20-f2.bay20.hotmail.com [64.4.54.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7119343D58 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:24:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephanweaver@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:24:31 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 200.108.28.174 by by20fd.bay20.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:24:30 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.108.28.174] X-Originating-Email: [stephanweaver@hotmail.com] X-Sender: stephanweaver@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <200507151018.10131.ean@hedron.org> From: "Stephan Weaver" To: ean@hedron.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:24:30 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jul 2005 14:24:31.0193 (UTC) FILETIME=[EA53AC90:01C58948] Cc: Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:24:32 -0000 I Found out the Problem, The /var partation is full. How do i find out where is taking up all the space? Thanks >From: Ean Kingston >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >CC: stephanweaver@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline. >Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:18:09 -0400 > >On July 15, 2005 10:11 am, Stephan Weaver wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I have a Stand Alone FreeBSD Firewall / Nat / Dhcp Server. > > Everything seems to work fine, up until this morning. > > Users seem to complain they could not get on the network anymore. > > > > Further investigation revealed the dhcp server could not be contacted. > > Further more, only some of the users were online. > > I am guessing that these clients who were online had an ip address from >the > > dhcp server at a previous time and the lease didnt expire as yet. > > And users who were not online, the lease expired and attempted to >contact > > the dhcp server and failed. > > > > I Would appreciate any help or suggestions. > >Set the lease expire time to at least 5 days (7 to 10 is better) and the >renewal time to between 4 and 12 hours. > >Then setup a dhcp monitoring process that will alert you if it fails to get >an >address or renewal. > >Make sure you have more addresses available than you ever expect to give >out. >I go with 50% more. I've known some admins that want at least double. > > > Like what to do in the future incase this happens again. > >Setup 2 dhcp servers on the network. If one fails, the other will hopefully >continue to serve addresses. Monitor this one as well. > > > I Would like to find out what had happened. > >Start reading logs. > > > The last thing that i had done to the server was setup, configure and > > install 'ntop'; > > dont know if this would cause a problem. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > Stephan Weaver > > > > P.S. Please reply to my Directly at @ > > stephanweaver@hotmail.com > >-- >Ean Kingston > >E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org >URL: http://www.hedron.org/ >I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network >administration please feel free to contact me directly. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/