[SunHELP] loosing the connection

[Will Mc Donald]

If the problem's with telnet or ssh this sort of thing can happen due to
name resolution as well. Do both machines know about the other in their
hosts or via DNS?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Meredith" <hmv at meredithm.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] loosing the connection


> Hi
>
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> >      I have a sun box on a "203.x.x.x" network, which is carrying a
> > live site. And i'm on my "192.x.x.x" local network. My sun
> > box(203.x.x.x) has proper subnet and gateway entries. Sometimes all
> > of a sudden i won't be able to connect to my sun box, (i won't be
>
> I did have something similar with a Sun server that was very idle most
> of the time. It appeared that the router would time-out the arp cache
> and I couldn't connect after that happened (I can't remember the full
> details).
>
> A quick fix was to ping the machine every 5 minutes.
>