Advice from a networking guy: fire up ethereal, and look at what's
going out over the network.  :)

On 5/12/05, Bill Earl <bearl@bestbill.com> wrote:
> 
> Erik Bixby wrote:
> 
> >How do the database servers authenticate people?  Is there a NIS
> >server to which they connect?  This doesn't sound as though it has
> >anything to do with the applications running on the machine, but
> >rather your authenticator is looking for something (I'm guessing a NIS
> >server) by host name, and timing out.  Not being able to ping local
> >hosts by machine name could be of interest.  Had you been able to ping
> >them by machine name before?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> The db servers (and other linux boxes) just authenticate through local
> accounts.
> 
> And nope, have never been able to ping internal machines by name.   I
> agree, it does appear to be some sort of authentication issue.  I'm just
> trying to track down what might have changed.
> 
> Is anyone aware of a utility that I could run on the linux boxes to
> figure out what they're doing, or trying to do, during the delay?
> Rather than try to find who changed what on the network, when I know
> these three linux boxes didn't change, if I could tell what they're
> trying to do that might point me in the direction of the problem.
> 
> 
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