From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 6 19:04:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24274 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24227 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA10991; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:20:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980707112015.Z7792@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:20:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: NOC-IPAD , "'FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG'" Subject: Network errors (was: Homesick Nameserver...) References: <01BDA8C5.B16FCDC0@noc.mfn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01BDA8C5.B16FCDC0@noc.mfn.org>; from NOC-IPAD on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:06:06AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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