SUMMARY: GS160 5.1A DNS weirdness - address 0.0.0.0

From: Jonathan Burelbach <jburelba_at_phoenix.cit.nih.gov>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:12:44 -0400

Thanks to Dr. Blinn & Lucien HERCAUD. I did a "rcinet restart" and
everything cleared up. It didn't even close any of the open connections
I had. I still don't know why it happened, but Dr. Blinn's guess was
that "something in the kernel got trashed".

Jon

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:46:10AM -0400, Jonathan Burelbach scribbled:
> I have a GS160 that just decided to go wonky on me. DNS is not resolving
> for some reason. I've checked svc.conf & resolv.conf and they both look
> fine. I'm not running named - just pointing out to external servers so
> its not a caching problem. I haven't tried restarting the network since
> this is a production DB server & I'd rather not interupt things. If I
> do an nslookup I get back the following:
>
> jburelba_at_hostname: syslog.dated/current 111 -> nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 0.0.0.0: Timed out
> *** Can't find server name for address 0.0.0.0: Timed out
>
> It also happens that envmond died around the time this started happening.
> It logged a message that it couldn't talk to svrSystem_mib so that's
> probably because it couldn't find itself. Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
> Jon
>
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Jonathan Burelbach                               jburelba_at_mail.nih.gov
Unix Systems Administrator                  jburelba_at_topaz.cit.nih.gov
NIH/CIT/DCSS/SOSB;12 South Dr.;Bldg 12B/2N207;Bethesda  (301) 496-7372
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