Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 May 1999 13:55:35 +0100 (GMT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | [SOLVED] Re: ICMP Weirdness (old bug resurfaced?) |
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On Sat, 1 May 1999, David Miller wrote:
> Looks like it's trying to query a yp server, you may need to fixup > your /etc/nsswitch.conf
Your comments about yp servers set off an alarm bell in my head, and I have a sad and salutary story to tell. A few weeks ago, some fuckwit mailbombed me (I received over 3,000 obscene messages telling me what to do with my mother!), and it prompted me to install an anti-spam program on my system. Along the way (I installed that correctly at least as it turns out), I discovered the identd daemon wasn't working properly because hosts.deny/hosts.allow weren't configured properly and I did fix this. However along the way, I also made two mistakes, both these errors together caused the icmp (and also sunrpc) problems. In my wisdom, I made the error of thinking dnsdomainname set the machine's domain name (i.e tahallah.demon.co.uk). As it turns out it is not what I thought it was! At that point, I made the second mistake, whch was to type in 'domainname' instead of 'dnsdomainname' (which would have almost certainly told me that this wasn't what I was trying to do!). As domainname is for yp servers, this caused both the sunrpc & icmp problems I had experienced. Removing domainname cured all these problems.
Gaaah. I need to go put my head down the nearest toilet or something. At least I can laugh now that I've solved this.
Cheers, Alex -- "A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"
http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk
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