much to my surprise....
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Thu Sep 22 21:02:40 UTC 2011
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:14:50PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011
> > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Cc:
> > Subject: much to my surprise....
> >
> >
> > guys,
> >
> > well, after a forced, unexpected, and emergency 5 days away, i got
> > back to my desk and could not ping. while mail seemed to be working,
> > and my *local* ping worked---I could ping around from my freebsd server
> > to my other computers--i spent 3+ hours trying to ping various
> > sites. Zero. i tried everything i could think of. NOTHING worked.
> > i tried the -d -f -f to named and on and on and on. nothing.
> >
> > *Finally*, i saw that my telco router was displaying "INT" in red
> > LED's. i didn't know they displayed in any other color but the
> > default green, but after power-cycling, voila! back to green.
> > and now, yes, i can ping freebsd.org. and i'm pretty sure other
> > network things will work too.
> >
> > from any/all sysadmin types or others::
> > i would like tricks, tips, insights--whatever--about named and
> > whatever else. i thought i had collected many. nope. i've got
> > bind 9.8 installed and it was working fine until my recent
> > 'vacation.' Other than checking one's routers (hub/switch), and other
> > hardware (including server, computers, cables, etc) does anybody have a
> > checklist of what to do to diagnose this? are there any other
> > utilities i can try besides ping and named -d 3 -f -g? other
> > network utilities with a debug flag? i'm running 7.3 on a dell 530.
> >
> > tia for any insights,
>
> You should _really_ consider hiring a professional to maintain your
> systems.
>
> Diagnosing _this_ problem should have taken no more than about 30
> *seconds*.
>
> If you can't get somewhere 'by name', you try to get there 'by address'.
>
> If 'by address' works and 'by name' doesn't, *that* is the indication of
> a DNS problem.
>
> If you can't get there 'by address', it is *NOT* a DNS problem, and you
> start looking for a 'connectivity' problem.
>
> The *BASIC* tools for that start with 'traceroute'. Which would have
> *immediately* (well, within abut ten seconds :) indicated exactly _where_
> the problem was.
>
> Those who don't understand these kind dof things are "too dangerous"
> to be trusted with the superuser password.
>
> Bluntly, not only do you not know the things you need to know to manage
> a (even 'personal') network, you "DON'T KNOW _what_ you don't know", and
> until you *do* learn the basics, you'll save youself a *LOT* of hair-
> tearing if you hire someone to solve the problems for you.
While your information may be correct and useful, your self-righteous
arrogant diatribe is not helpful or appropriate on this list.
////jerry
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