Wayward DNS

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 14:33 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Tue, May 9, 2006 12:58 pm, Matt O'Donovan said:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Not exactly an install issue but its driving me mad. I have a server that is
> > intermittently losing its ability to resolve DNS. It can work for months but
> > recently it failed three times in the last 24 hours. Restarting named and
> > even restarting the network does not help. Only a reboot. I have hardcoded
> > DNS addresses in resolv.conf and the server addresses are fine. Red Hat 9.0.
> > Two NICs one multinetted.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?  Thanks in advance - Matt
> 
> One idea. That's my limit. Age-related.
> 
> I had a network card where the tulip driver seemed to time out and I found I
> had to stop and restart the network to get it back. Since you said that didn't
> help, my idea is to do a rmmod driver and then insmod driver where you
> supplant 'driver' with the network card driver that's appropriate.

Karl has a point.  What network cards are you using?  As far what Karl
did, often just a "service network restart" will do the trick.

> Now someone can tell me I'm up in the night and that'll give me an excuse to
> take a nap.

Take a nap, Karl.

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