On Thursday 29 September 2005 1:54 pm, Bob Chiodini wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:15 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:27 am, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > > Claude, > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 is the IP address the lo device on all machines in your net. > > > This may be some kind of special case, but I think your DHCP server > > > should hand out the real LAN address of your DNS server, something like > > > 192.168.x.y. Why it worked up until recently I don't know. > > > > > > Bob... > > > > Thanks, Bob - and the other question which is why did it stop working > > only for some functions (mail, messenger), and on only two PC's out 5? > > That's why I worded my opening sentence the way I did - one other thing > > I've noticed this am, is that I'm getting slpd errors on shutdown - well, > > it just says it failed to shut it down - I had never heard of this > > daemon, but I read a little about it, and on cursory inspection, it seems > > like it 'could' be related -- need to keep looking - I just posted this > > in case anyone else was having the same issue, on the chance it could be > > related to recent updates... -- > > Claude Jones > > Bluemont, VA, USA > > Claude, > > I'm running FC3 and do not have slpd, but glanced at the RFC. Has there > been a slpd update lately? > > Bob... Bob: I did some more checking when I got home last night. Still couldn't find any record of slpd updates. Status indicates that it's running. I get the 'failed to close' message when I shut down - don't know what that's about. I got things working, again. Two things - the first was to enter the DNS servers from my ISP in my dhcp.conf file. That immediately brought all machines back to life. Then, I changed that entry to the address of my lan NIC, 192.168.2.1 as opposed to 127.0.0.1 - it seems to be continuing to work. It's a bit of a mystery - why it worked before, and why it stopped working for two pc's out of 5??? I was looking through the DNS bind server settings with Webmin last night, and I realized that there's a lot there I still don't understand - more reading to do... Thanks for the suggestions. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
