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Subject: Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...?
To: patrick@chloe.dmv.com
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:54:01 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960604184551.patrick@chloe.dmv.com> from "Patrick Ferguson" at Jun 4, 96 06:45:54 pm
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> 
> On Thu May 30 00:30:25 1996 Steve Reid wrote:
> >>This is strange... Has anyone else seen this happen?
> >
> >Last night one of the machines I admin, spock.edmweb.com [204.244.190.2]
> >went down, or so it seemed. I (inside the LAN) was unable to ping Spock, and 
> >another person outside was also unable to ping that machine.

I'd say check network memory buffers.  If the IRC bots are really active
they could be generated lots of packets depending on how well they're
written.