From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 9:21:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts15.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3415737B401 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.93.38.74]) by tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011011162139.CKVM19401.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:21:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9BGEoW36918; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:14:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:13:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Mary Kay Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems accepting TCP connections In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > I am trying to setup a FreeBSD box to serve as an anonymous ftp server. > Everything works well, but at some point (8-12 hours or so) I start having > unexplained problems with connectivity to the FreeBSD box. These do not > seem to be load issues as the box is normally under very low load. [ snip ] > I can ping the box fine. I can connect to it using telnet although it takes > a painfully long time to get the login prompt (1-2 minutes). Also of note > when the box gets into this state is that a "netstat -a" or > "arp -a" will also take an excruciatingly long time to complete. A warm > boot does not seem to clear the problem but a cold boot does. Does this > sound like some sort of NIC/driver combination issue? Sounds more like a DNS issue. Check to see if 'arp -an' and 'netstat -an' complete quickly. If they do, then your DNS isn't properly set up. Check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure that any local instances of named are properly configured and running. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message