On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:30:57PM -0500, John W. Lemons III wrote:
> I installed and configured QMail on Friday of last week. It passed all the
> test, and seemed to work perfectly. Perhaps coincidently, my DSL connection
> started hanging randomly the same night. At first, I assumed it was just a
What makes you think it's the DSL connection that is "hanging"?
Or are you saying that "from my Linux box I can no longer send or receive
any packets". If so, could it simply be a problem with the Linux box and qmail?
Is the DSL modem indicating that it's hung?
Can you plug something else directly into the DSL modem to determine whether
it's your Linux box or indeed the DSL connection?
You are right. DSL does not normally hang due to qmail traffic :>
Regards.
> glitch, and I re-set the connection. After doing this several time, I
> started hunting for the cause on Sunday. I turned off QMail, HTTPD, FTPD,
> telnetd, and SSH. I turned on those services slowly over the rest of the
> day, and the connection stayed stable until Sunday night, shortly after I
> turned QMail back on (the web server was the one I turned on prior to that,
> so it is still in the running at this point). I re-set everything, got the
> connection back up, and started everything except the web server and the
> mail server. Everything was stable, and I turned the web server back on
> Monday morning. Mid Monday I turned QMail back on, and shortly lost my DSL
> connection again. I turned off qmail and the server has been up since then.
> I want to believe that it is a DSL problem, and not QMail, but the
> circumstances are leading me to thing otherwise. I am a novice when it
> comes to linux, and would appreciate any suggestion on how I might track
> this problem down. Please feel free to suggest qmail specific and
> especially non-qmail specific ideas, since I would like to believe that its
> not qmail. Any way, here are some details that may help: Pentium 133, 64
> meg of ram, RedHat Linux 6.0, 768k ADSL connection, configured as a firewall
> and using MASQing, lots of free space on the drives (no less than 200 meg on
> any give mount, except /boot). Its been rock solid for months prior to
> these problems.
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> Thanks,
> John
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