>> Look into /etc/hosts.
>> If there's a line in there which refers to the machine's own hostname,
that could be
Very close, the machines effected had al had their IPaddresses/names modified
by editing the /etc/sysconf files <RedHat3.0.3>
Uhmm oops.... I forgot to change/edit /etc/hosts to match changes
Actually machine that became critical had been modified by customer but i was
miss diagnosing it :-)
ps: clearing /etc/hosts caused talk to just hang weird!
anyhow setting /etc/hosts to match the sys config scripts fixed it.
thanks for your help
E-mail from: Patrick Main, 02-Nov-1996