[rescue] weird problem

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> This is at home? And you connect to the internet how?

Yepper. Now everything is working. I tried ping using the -n to bypass
nameserver lookup and it worked fine, as in I got my ping replies.

Now suddenly I have everthing including console messages working propperly.

Geez where is my dead chicken when I need it!!

Mike N

> 
> ~ -----Original Message-----
> ~ From: Mike Nicewonger [mailto:twmaster at twmaster.com]
> ~ Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:13 PM
> ~ To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> ~ Subject: [rescue] weird problem
> ~ 
> ~ 
> ~ OK, 
> ~ 
> ~ This morning when I decided to check my mail I kept getting 
> ~ time-outs while
> ~ trying to connect to my mailserver from my Linux box. anyway, 
> ~ I rebooted the
> ~ Linux box, no change. So I get poking around and cannot connect to my
> ~ nameserver. odd....I reboot the nameserver and all seems 
> ~ well. I got my mail
> ~ and things seemed fine. Then, while having an SSH xterm open 
> ~ I noticed that I
> ~ am no longer seeing my console messages. OK I says WTF???
> ~ 
> ~ I go to the server room, connect a VT to the mailserver and 
> ~ all looks good.
> ~ getting console messages on the VT, I can see the 
> ~ nameservers, ping anybody I
> ~ want etc.
> ~ 
> ~ Now I go back to the linix box, when I ping the mail server I 
> ~ get 1 packet
> ~ back, all the rest go off into the ether....still no console 
> ~ messages. I can
> ~ pop my mail just fine. 
> ~ 
> ~ Any ideas?? I am stumped.
> ~ 
> ~ Mike N
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