Subject: Re: routing H E L P!!!!!!!!
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 10:27:09 AKDT
I'm not much of a network admin either, but the first thing I'd try is
using 'ps -aux' to look for a 'zombied' processes.
When you get it running again you might want to look at Webmin. It can
be setup to monitor and administer multiple boxes.
Jim Gribbin
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:28, Scott Johnson wrote:
> ok... no idea what happened, but I came home tonight and my RedHat mySQL
> server that's been up for 2 months straight isn't responding to pings. It's
> a headless box so I go down into the crawl space to see what the problem is.
>
> Link light on switch is fine. Link light on NIC is fine. Haven't SSH'd
> into this box, let alone changed any settings for at least a month. Log
> into terminal and I can't ping ANYTHING outside the box. ifconfig info
> looks fine. was using a static IP but I changed my network scripts to do
> DHCP. Do a quick ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 and it gets an IP from my DHCP
> server just fine. Do a route command and the routing "looks" fine, however
> it is going slow trying to resolve the hostnames of the IP's (trying to do a
> reverse lookup) but once again, it doesn't "see" anything outside this box;
> eventually the route command succeeds and looks fine as far as default
> gateways, local IP addresses..... Which is the strangest thing especially
> since getting a dhcp lease works great but nothing else seems to work.
>
> I know I haven't given anyone much to go with, but where can I start
> troubleshooting the networking problems on this? I don't have a great deal
> of experience with Linux, so any help is appreciated. The OS is RH 8.2.
> And unfortunately I don't have anything handy like netconf installed do help
> us out, so everything I do is through VI. No diskdrive or CDROM on this
> machine either.
>
> HELP PLEASE!!!! ANY help appreciated!!! I'm desperate! This is the SQL
> backend to my webserver so now a couple of my websites are completely
> offline!!!!
>
> Scott
>
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