Wayward DNS 2006-05-09 - By karlp@(protected)
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On Tue, 9 May 2006, Rick Stevens wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 14:33 -0600, karlp@(protected) wrote:
>> On Tue, May 9, 2006 12:58 pm, Matt O'Donovan said:
>> > Hi Folks,
>> >
>> > Not exactly an install issue but its driving me mad. I have a server that
is
>> > intermittently losing its ability to resolve DNS. It can work for months
but
>> > recently it failed three times in the last 24 hours. Restarting named and
>> > even restarting the network does not help. Only a reboot. I have hardcoded
>> > DNS addresses in resolv.conf and the server addresses are fine. Red Hat 9
.0.
>> > Two NICs one multinetted.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Any ideas? Thanks in advance - Matt
>>
>> One idea. That's my limit. Age-related.
>>
>> I had a network card where the tulip driver seemed to time out and I found I
>> had to stop and restart the network to get it back. Since you said that didn
't
>> help, my idea is to do a rmmod driver and then insmod driver where you
>> supplant 'driver' with the network card driver that's appropriate.
>
>Karl has a point. What network cards are you using? As far what Karl
>did, often just a "service network restart" will do the trick.
One other thought might be that your lease for DHCP might be up. but, the
restart of the network should fix that, I would think. You may want to do
netstat -rn when the network seems to die and see...
>
>> Now someone can tell me I'm up in the night and that'll give me an excuse to
>> take a nap.
>
>Take a nap, Karl.
somehow taking a nap while driving doesn't refresh, which reminds me of a
favorite of mine: "I wish to die quietly in my sleep, like my
Grandfather; not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car."
Karl
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