Dear Colin
Aaaaaaarrrrrrggghhhh! ... sounds of head smashing violently against desk...
Doh!
Thank you. Doh! Doh! Doh!
I'd previously set up another machine as a web and name server, and used
the "faulty" one to test it, forgetting to set /etc/resolv.conf back. About
the same time as I patched the "faulty" machine, I switched off the name
server so I could borrow its power cord. Doh!
At least the solution was easy, and everything is working again. Many
thanks for your quick - and accurate - response.
Neil
P.S. Are you a guru, or was this the voice of experience? ;-)
On Thursday, August 05, 1999 3:54 PM, Colin Bradford
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Neil Moore-Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi guys
> >
> > Here's the problem, Samba and telnet have stopped working. The samba
> > daemons take try to start and then give up after perhaps two minutes.
If I
> > try to telnet in, I get a connection but the login prompt doesn't show
for
> > about three minutes.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas on the cause, or how to determine the cause? If
need
> > be, I'll reinstall, but the thought of loading all the patches,
recompiling
> > gcc, rebuilding the kernel, reloading the latest Apache etc, just wears
me
> > out.
>
> You've killed name lookup. Telnet does a reverse lookup for logging
> purposes, and samba does it to determin it's name on each network. Make
> sure that you have an entry in /etc/hosts for every interface on your
> machine, and samba should start. Make sure that you have either a)
> reverse DNS working for every remote host or b) an entry in /etc/hosts
> for every machine that telnets in, and telnet will stop waiting.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin.
>
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