On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:27:52AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Tom Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is this...every few days, ariel cannot connect to ezekiel.
> [...]
> > So, whatever is happening is a problem on ariel, which prevents it from
> > _connecting_ to the SMTP port on ezekiel (neither qmail nor telnet can
> > connect). Whatever it is will eventually "cure" itself, but then will occur
> > again a day or two later. A reboot "cures" the problem immediately.
>
> Is it possible your routing table gets screwed up somehow?
I'll check that next time it happens. I think that I've checked it before, but
I've tried so much stuff that I can't be sure.
> Try doing a tcpdump on the link between the two machines, and see if any
> packets make it out at all.
I will.
> Can you even ping ezekiel from ariel when the problem is happening? Maybe
> ariel has a flaky network card or driver. Check the syslog of ariel for odd
> messages.
Yes, ping works fine. When the "problem" occurs, I can still access the
Internet from ezekiel thru ariel (using MASQ) without any problems. Funny you
should mention syslogd...I changed my setup a couple of weeks ago so that ariel
logs directly to syslogd on ezekiel. Logging continues to work fine when the
"problem" occurs, with no unusual syslog messages (ditto before I set ariel to
log to ezekiel).
Everything else seems to work normally anytime the "problem" occurs...ariel
just won't talk to ezekiel's SMTP port (BTW ezekiel will continue to talk to
ariel's SMTP port though).
I'll try the tcpdump thing next time that it happens. If you can think of
anything else that I should try when it happens, please let me know.
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