On Monday 28 November 2005 17:58, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > 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. > ifplugd works, at least at the ethernet level. > > > 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? > > Yes I can.
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