I recently posed the following question about my workstation and some
networking problems I was having:
I recently upgraded my Sparc 10 to Solaris 2.4, and everything was
fine for a few days (ie. network responses were fast like usual). But
beginning yesterday, networking has been (I know it sounds like a
contradiction) consistently flaky. By this I mean:
I reboot, it takes at least 10 seconds to receive an
answer to a ping sent to a nearby workstation.
I wait a certain amount of time, and then the delay gets
longer, and longer, and then eventually I get no response
at all. All sessions I had open on remote systems die.
The time in between the reboot and when connectivity stops is getting
shorter and shorter every time I reboot. It's down to less than a half
hour of online time before I have to reboot again.
I installed all the patches that came on the CDrom, as well as the
recommended patches from sunsolve. And since this problem started,
I've been applying various other patches that I didn't have applied to
various things that *might* be related, but have proven not to be.
[list of patches applied deleted]
The problem turned out to be a minor one, (and I feel kind of sheepish
about it :) I figured it out by running ping -s to another machine on
the network here, and every time a ping was sent, I received an
ICMP_PORT_UNREACHABLE error from a machine that seemed totally
unrelated. Turned out that that machine's IP address had been moved to
the primary nameserver position in /etc/resolv.conf, and every time a
lookup had to be done, the first nameserver had to time out, hence the
delay.
I still could not figure out, however, why things were deteriorating
over time. I applied patch 101907-05 at the suggestion of Casper Dik
and things have been ok so far.
There was still the question of why there had been a delay
when trying to telnet/rlogin etc into the machine. I realized that
since I was running tcp wrappers, they were causing a DNS lookup of
every host that connected, before login was started.
I want to thank the following people for their suggestions:
Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
<joel@virtualvegas.com>
Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>
Henry Unger <hunger@hitech.com>
Kira Attwood
kira@virginia.edu
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