Stefano, Thanks so much for the quick response. Pardon my ignorance. I can't find a resolve.conf. Is that a Linux-only? If so, what is the Windows equivalent?
Who/what would update that file? Thanks again. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Bagnara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:04 AM To: James Users List Subject: Re: James started not being able to find any external host Mayeb your resolve.conf has been updated after james was started. IIRC dnsjava reads the resolve.conf at startup. Stefano JWM wrote: > This is a very scary situation. Apparently sometime yesterday AM, James > just decided that it could no longer find any external hosts. I get a ton > of entries in the logs that say "can't find DNS entries for yahoo.com", > sbcglobal.net, verizon.net, and a ton of other completely legit domains. > > I know the obvious suspect is the DNS for the server. But from that same > machine I can do nslookup and also bring up web pages for the domains James > says it can't find. > > I turned on "DEBUG" level on all the logs and restarted James (not a server > reboot, just bounced James). All of a sudden, now James is happy and > finding everything. > > Nothing I dislike more than problems that just 'go away' with a reboot. I > really need to figure out what could have caused this and what state James > must have gotten into. Random problems like this tend to return at the most > inconvenient times. > > If you've never heard of anything like this, still please tell me what I can > do to start debugging it the next time. I'm very good at debug. I just > need to at least know the zip code of where to begin. > > Thanks, > > Jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
