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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?
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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
>
>


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