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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:06:06 -0500
From:      NOC-IPAD <sysadmin@greeves.mfn.org>
To:        "'FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG'" <FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Homesick Nameserver...
Message-ID:  <01BDA8C5.B16FCDC0@noc.mfn.org>

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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???

Enjoy...
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@mfn.org

P.S.: Doug, have any luck with that lpr thing???


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