I'm hoping someone out there may be able to give me some insight as to what
may have happened to me today. My main web/dns server apparently started
losing network connections, inconsistantly, one minute it was running fine,
next minute, it was like it was not there. I trouble shot everything I
could, finally coming up with the answer that the ethernet card must be bad,
so, I replaced the ethernet card. And it worked, for about 45mins, then the
same problem came back. Anyway, I find out that one of my dial-in customers,
using windows95, was requesting the same ip address as my web server, now it
is my understanding, and past experience, that a network client even though
he can request that same ip address, he will not have network access, so
long as the original holder of that ip address is online. (does that make
any sense). But somehow, that user managed to override my servers internet
address. I also tried to duplicated the problem several times, with the
normal result, I could not take the servers address, I was able to dial in,
but had no network capabilities. So, what I am wondering, is what may have
caused this, or how this may have happened. BTW, the dial up server is
windowsNT v3.51 using standard microsoft remote access. Thanks in advance,
and if I've boored anyone I apologize :)
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Trevor Reynolds
System Administrator
Todd Alan Communications
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