On 19/12/06, Mohammad Khashashneh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello again, > > As I suspected, the gateway was running OK today. I telneted to it and > tried the following: > > - Try pinging to a real IP address instead to eliminate any DNS problems. > I tried ping 64.233.167.99 (google.com) and it works fine now. > - In case ICMP is somehow blocked along the lines, try telneting to port > 80 of a web server on the Internet. > I really don't know how, but I tried telnet www.yahoo.com and it > didn't give any response, I appreciate it if you know any valid example. > - Further try pinging to an IP of the "company's network" > I tried to ping a printer in the company network and it works fine > too. > > I know Its good to be working now but I'm sure the problem will happen > again. > > Regarding my 2nd question, Why it is not good to reboot the machine to fix > problems (just like we often do on windows)?
emm.. availability? and another question, How can I see Logs or information about the system > and network usage since the last boot? I know most of the system logs live > in the /var/log/ directory but most of them are not readable. and in my case > system.log is not available! > > Thanks again for the help. > > Mohammad. > > *Mohammad Khashashneh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > thank you very much Yaman, > I will try what you told me tomorrow as I left the office right now. But I > think by that time the problem will be gone (but surely not solved).This > happend before and it will happen again I guess. > > I'll tell you the results tomorrow inshalla. > > Regards > > Mohamad K. > > > *Yaman Saqqa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > Dear Mohammad, > > I'm not sure I get the whole picture but I thought I'd send you a tip for > testing. > > You mentioned 'pinging to yahoo.com' > > As an alternative: > > - Try pinging to a real IP address instead to eliminate any DNS problems. > - In case ICMP is somehow blocked along the lines, try telneting to port > 80 of a web server on the Internet. > - Further try pinging to an IP of the "company's network" > > The composite result of those three tests can better help you corner the > problem. > > Keep us posted! > > On 12/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > hello, this is a BSD Problem but I hope that someone can help. > > > > At the office we have 2 LANs, the company LAN and our own > > internal LAN for development purposes. We have a BSD machine with 2 LAN > > interfaces that acts as a gateway between the 2. We use is it to access > > the internet. Now everything is up and running until recently, the > > gateway blocks sometimes and it stops forwarding packets. after a while > > it starts to work again. Forgive me but my knowledge in this stuff is > > limited so please bare with me. > > > > When it happens, I try to ping the gateway from my machine and > > it works fine. when I telnet to the gateway, and try to ping yahoo.com > > from it, it doesn't!. So that means that the connection between the > > gateway and the company network is not working. > > > > My question(s): > > Q1: what could be the possible reason for this. is it the gateway > > itself, does is get stuffed with requests from the local machines > > trying to access the internet, if yes how can I check for this > > information? Or is it the Company server that blocks the gateway for a > > while and then works regularly? during this time if I plug my machine > > to the company network it works fine, so the problem is from the > > gateway for sure. > > > > Q2: I would like to understand the possible cause for such a problem to > > solve it before the rest of the team restart the machine by force (we > > are all Windows users by the way :)) so why is it not good to restart > > Unix machines when such problems occur in general? is it OK to at least > > deactivate the network interface instead? > > > > Thanks in advance. Mohammad Khashashneh. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Saleh M. Odeh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
