[31207] in Hotline Meeting
Re: *** file server down ***
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Fri Dec 8 09:18:04 1995
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:17:27 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
To: shlootz@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU
> File server 18.183.0.29 has been going up and down
"add net-tools; hostcheck 18.183.0.29" shows that the server, the AFS
file server tartarus, has been up for over 20 weeks. Its log files
show no errors.
An AFS client logs "lost contact with" errors any time it loses
network connectivity with a server it wants to keep in touch with. If
there is a local network problem (e.g. the cable for your workstion is
loose) then you would generally lose contact with at least a few
servers at a time. Did this happen?
You gave no indication of where you were logged in, but if the
symptoms match those described above, then it's likely a hardware
problem (with the workstation, the local networking hardware, or the
connection between them).
Another possibility, if it was only Tartarus you only lost contact
with, is that Tartarus' network (which would have affected many users)
was at fault.
We need more information (even if just "the problem is gone now") to
figure out what's wrong.
David Krikorian, DCNS Systems Support
