On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 +0000 Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont > experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it > invariably does because my ISP reboots its servers every 28 days as a > policy, thereby disconnecting me ). Chances are its a particular program > thats trying to connect to the net and failing, thereby using cycles in > new attempts. > > While we are at it, does there exist a program that can monitor my > internet connection and run a script if the net is down (like a restart > script)? I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart > everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers.
many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you have it sorted properly. can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
