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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-4.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!feisal From: feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: network hangs Date: 20 Mar 1997 03:28:20 GMT Organization: University of the West Indies Lines: 23 Message-ID: <slrn5j1ccq.2pa.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> References: <01bc347a$00837180$e2206dc2@rbsoen> NNTP-Posting-Host: cuscon87.tstt.net.tt X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37313 In article <01bc347a$00837180$e2206dc2@rbsoen>, Robert Soen wrote: [snip] >The leased line I have has 2 USrobotics courier modem on each side. >So far so good. >I compiled ppp into the kernel. >So my machine is acting as a mail server to the internet. >Everything works fine exept sometimes the ppp lines hangs. >If it happends, logging in from the console is stil possible. >Logging in from the network has a long responsetime. [snip] Bet that those long times are your DNS timing out. Telnet to the IP, if you get an instant connection then its your DNS. What might be happenning is the machine cannot contact its DNS server. You might consider keeping those commonly used IPs in your /etc/hosts file and make sure that the /etc/host.conf checks the hosts file before consulting the DNS (bind). -Feisal -- Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies.