Johnson, Tracy wrote:
> We're having periodic network outages to outside our building (inside
> seems O.K.) it was probably our Gateway.  A side effect I noticed, is
> our JINETD gets hung (inbound FTP and Telnet fail.)  Stopping inetd with
> -k also fails.
> 
> The only cure seems a reboot.  (I haven't tried just shutting down NS,
> but if I've gone that far, I may as well reboot.)  One good thing is our
> users use almost NS/VT exclusively. so I can put off the reboot.
> 
> I'm thinking the probable root cause, is the HP does a reverse lookup of
> an incoming session when it is Telnet or FTP, if it can't reach the
> Gateway to do the lookup, incoming Telnets fails even locally.  (Which
> is why NS/VT still works, because the HP doesn't care where the incoming
> NS/VT session comes from.)

Check that your gateway is still up.
:nettool.net.sys
NAMEADDR
ROUTING
GATELIST

If its not active, use GATEUP


Keven

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