Verging on OT, except that all the machines involved happen to be Red Hat 6.2/7 boxes... Our network seems to have a mild case of wonkiness; occasionally RPC-based processes will just refuse to work. The problems are always intermittent, but seem to be increasing over the past few days. There could be several factors at work, but I have a gut feeling that the problems I've seen are all related. This problem isn't much more than an annoyance, but it's troublesome because I have no idea what's going on and I don't want this to escalate into a widespread failure. Sometimes at boot, a machine will fail to bind to our NIS domain; the same machine might bind just fine five minutes later with no intervention. This seems to happen regardless of network traffic, and I don't see anything in the server-side logs that looks related. Every so often, root gets mail from the cron daemon with the following content: yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer This comes from various hosts, at arbitrary times throughout the day; the same cron jobs (usually /sbin/rmmod -as) might complete just fine on the same host before and after the one that caused the alert. I don't know why rmmod needs to talk to NIS in the first place, / and /usr are local mounts on all of our boxen... Our network topology is relatively simple; we have three Netgear 100Mb switches chained together through their uplink ports, with roughly twenty Linux machines and two or three Windows boxes active at any given time, spanning all three switches. Any idea what might be going on? -- Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation Opinions expressed above are my own, and not those of my employer. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
