roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (11/27/90)
Can anybody think of any reason why a host would stop responding to
pings? I've got a Vax-11/750 running MtXinu 4.3 BSD/NFS that's been up for
54 days and suddenly stopped responding to pings. Everything else works; I
can telnet to and from it, nntp, smtp, nfs, rlogin, etc, all seem to be
working fine. It just won't answer pings. I can ping other hosts from it,
but I can't ping it. Even attempts to ping localhost fail. Spooky.
This happened once before, a year or two ago. I didn't figure it
out then either. Anybody have any ideas?
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"