Re: Strange Network problem
Greg Green <Gregory.Green@advantagecom.com> writes:
> machine since it is not acting as the router. Also, when I add a
> certain host to my Debian /etc/hosts file.....the access is great. The
> I can also flood the machines on the network with ping -f and not lose
> any packets
> pop server = qpopper (2.2).....one-reocurring 110 error ( connot get
> canonical name of ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) in /var/adm/messages...I think
> this particular machine is just configured wrong in its email setup.
I think this is a DNS problem. Your linuxbox has trouble resolving the
names of the machines in your LAN.
Do you have a line "nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" in your /etc/resolv.conf ?
I had a similar problem today. I deleted the nameserver lines and couldn't
connect with telnet and ftp timed-out after one statusline. Other services
worked as well, as long as they didn't try to resolv a name. Ping worked
just right.
In my case, the tcp wrapper wanted to use 0.0.0.0 as address for a
nameserver when it didn't find an entry in resolv.conf .
Hope this helps.
Ciao,
Martin
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