Dear: Fellow Gnu/Linux Debian users. I am at a loss as to solve this problem, other than to reinstall Debian Sarge. I am using a cable connection, with DHCP enabled getting a permannet IP address from my hardware Zyxel ZyWall router, which allows me to set IPs according to MAC addresses. I am using my cable companies DNS servers, other settings. As far as Debian is concerned its DHCP but always gets the same IP address by the router.
When I surf the internet, sometimes after about a minute of trying to load a webpage it times out on me with a DNS resolve error. Then if I immediately try to ping the webpage, it does not print anything to the screen. It just sits their like its waiting for input. I have to ctrl C to stop it. If I use traceroute on the web page, or any web page it does the same thing. When I switch to a different machine, I am able to get to the webpage in question, and everything works. I am able to ping the webpage, and traceroute the page, so I know it is a faulty Debian setup on that one machine. Now after about two to three minutes everything is working fine on the faulty machine. Ping works normally, traceroute works, I am able to get to the webpage. But for the life of me I am unable to find the problem. I have searched my logs and have found just a few odd links like this one for fetchmail found in syslog. [Jun 9 07:55:34 Raiz_mpx fetchmail[12263]: POP3 connection to pop-server.xxxx.xxxx failed: temporary name server error.] This one is from user.log. [Jun 8 06:51:26 Raiz_mpx xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyri llic/ (unreadable)] from daemon.log I get this: [Jun 10 09:09:21 Raiz_mpx identd[15555]: started Jun 10 10:53:03 Raiz_mpx identd[15633]: started Jun 10 11:03:25 Raiz_mpx identd[15644]: started Jun 10 11:50:09 Raiz_mpx identd[15699]: started] I have no clue if this is normal or not, it could explain the outages. identd could be restarting when I am trying to access the internet, but google is lacking on this mater. I have used aptitude to look for broken packages, or packages that are misconfigured. So far everything I have tried has not solved my problem. This machine has been updated a few times, from a 2.4 kernel, to a 2.6 kernel. If I go back to a 2.4 kernel it still has the same problem. I would like to solve this problem, or do I have to reinstall from scratch. Everything else seems to work fine, I am using a ext3 journaled file system, nothing has jumped out as being broken other than this. Thanks; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
