Kevin Fry wrote: > > I'm having a small problem with our redhat 6.2 bootp server and maybe > yous guys can shed some light on it for me. The problem is that > whenever our DSL internet connection is down(which is too much.. I wish > cable was available!), the bootpd stops responding to requests.. I can > see the requests with tcpdump, but no replys. and when the internet is > up sometimes is takes a little bit for the bootpd to respond to > requests. > I think it's doing DNS resolution and if it can't find a DNS server > when the net's down, it just stops working. Does linux automatically do > name resolution on every address it gets? If so can i turn this off? > Our network is behind a DSL modem/router (Flowpoint 2200) acting as > gateway(192.168.254.254), and we have 3 switches after that. > A lot of the time the router is finicky with linux even when > everything is working.. I know this is a bit off topic, but ANY > suggestions are very welcome.
it sounds like 'fun with PAM' that causes similar problems with my TFTP server. I need to write a simple inetd replacement (sans PAM) just for TFTP, so we don't get killed by the delays caused by PAM authorization checks. ron ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
