ISSUE (2.1.65): TCP/DNS service stopping

John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
26 Nov 1997 13:36:55 -0600

This would at first not seem to be a kernel issue, but it must be
since this only happens under 2.1.65 (2.0.x is fine.)

What happens is this: the system will stop looking up names by DNS
after awhile. However, the outside is still reachable and the inside
is still reachable.

Here's my configuration:
* PCI NE2000 Ethernet card. Internal network only, IP 10.0.0.1
* Loopback device, of course.
* PPP connection to the outside. Has a dynamic IP and is controlled
by diald (which I believe uses a psuedo-SLIP connection for
monitoring puposes.)

It seems that after connecting to PPP and then disconnecting a few
times, the name server on my local machine (10.0.0.1) cannot be
reached; it complains that it cannot access 10.0.0.1.

This has never been a problem under 2.0.x.

Any ideas?

BTW, my system is libc6 if that makes any difference.

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