RE: [cobalt-users] Help! The case of the disapearing remote Raq3...

["Phil Beynon" <Infolink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Recently, our Raq3 has developed a habit of "disappearing" from
> the net (no
> services, no pinging, no nuttin'!) for about 45 minutes at a time (It's
> hundreds of miles away in a colo place, so for all I know it's
> out getting
> coffee).
>
> Regardless, the logs show that swatch and other cron programs are running
> faithfully every 15 minutes during the outage, but absolutely NO network
> traffic is measured. There is no record of the services shutting down or
> restarting either -- the machine just stops answering. Dead silence for
> almost an hour, and then suddenly, it shows up again, happy as a
> a clam and
> answering all its ports as normal.
>
> ANY clues as to what might cause this behavior?? It's driving me
> -- and my
> frustrated clients -- up the wall!
>
> Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
>


Might seem too obvious, but if the box is happy maybe it has something daft
like a bad or misfitted network cable.

Phil

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