urban@randvax.UUCP (Mike Urban) (03/09/90)
Twice in the last month we have experienced a situation in which two or more Vaxen running 4.3bsd *simultaneously* lose their ability to map host names to their IP addresses. Rebooting alleviates the symptom, so it is not the disappearance of a file or anything similar. Most peculiar is the fact that the event appears to happen at the same time on unrelated systems running vanilla 4.3bsd; no NFSish tricks are involved. Has anyone experienced anything like this? What sort of Remarkable Event could trigger this syndrome? How can it be corrected short of a reboot. Mike -- Mike Urban urban@rand.ORG