From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 04:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29446 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (host77-36.airnet.net [209.64.77.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29439 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:59:26 GMT (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA13963; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:56:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35334EEB.99798DE5@airnet.net> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:56:28 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Brown CC: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: My FreeVSD machine is locking up at 6AM every morning. References: <199804141103.LAA16838@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown wrote: > > My HP Vectra P90 with FreeBSD 2.2STABLE, whcih has been as solid as a > rock for almost 2 years (uptimees of months). Has sudenly stared > locking up at about 6AM every morning. > > I suspect a hardware problem. I have syslog pointed to e remote > machine, and am getting no unusual messages from this machine. I get > nothing on the console. It juts can't be pinged, and wont respond to > the keyboard. > > Cany anyone sugest a wayto diagnose this probelm? Are there any system > cleanup activites that routinely ru at around this time? > > Please, correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a LAND attack cripple a machine in this fashion? Stan, in case you didn't know, a LAND attack is done with a butchered TCP/IP packet sent to the machine with the intention of causing a crash and resulting in Denial-Of-Service. Is the machine firewalled? What does the machine do? -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message