"Toal, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All,
>
> I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on this
> problem for me. We have 2 boxes set up on an isolated net
> through a hub. One is solaris 2.8, the other is red hat
> gnulinux. wu-ftpd is running on the redhat box. The sun
> box is listed in its /etc/hosts, and its nsswitch.conf shows
> hosts: files, only. resolv.conf lists 2 name servers that
> are not reachable from the isolated net segment.
Your easiest "what's really going on here" is to strace the ftpd
binary. I've often done things like hack up /etc/inetd.conf to invoke
daemons as
strace -o /tmp/killmenow ftpd -somerandomargs
in the past. I've found it to be one of the quickest paths to
enlightenment when you see things fail like this. Often much faster
than google and certainly less pain than gdb.
That said, having unreachable addresses in resolv.conf is probably
not something I would do; at least point it at localhost so that
resolvers get an immediate "ICMP port unreachable" rather than sending
into a black hole and waiting to time out.
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