[Xastir] Xastir forgetting DNS???

Wes Johnston wes at johnston.net
Wed Oct 22 18:13:48 EDT 2003


I'm going to restart the entire computer since having it stuck like this 
isn't getting anywhere. We'll see if it happens again.  FWIW, the only 
thing other than xastir I've run on this PC is the print job from the other 
night.... maybe it's related.... we'll see.


Wes



At 05:31 PM 10/22/2003, Curt Mills wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>
> > Have you've checked your routing tables and your DNS to make sure
> > those aren't an issue?
>
>Never mind.  If it works sometimes (when you first start Xastir),
>but not others, it _could_ be a DNS timeout issue or it could be a
>half-dead socket issue, but it's probably not routing.  Routing
>shouldn't be changing, so if it works once, it should work again.
>
>If it's coming back with a hard fail, it's most likely trying to
>make a socket connection to an IP address and getting an error while
>doing so.
>
>--
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>Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
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