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Don't suppose you have clashing IP addresses?? Could be one or other is getting DHCP address whilst the other has a fixed IP address ? I had a load of extremely odd occurrences which suddenly started about 5 months ago for no reason (our network had been running perfectly for years) - internet connection failures, failures to resolve internet addresses, EXTREMELY slow name resolution etc. Spent ages trying to track down the error and was beginning to suspect an intermittent hardware failure. But following advice from here, I commented out the 'Forwarders' section of my DNS config file. I'm still not really sure why this helped with some of the more esoteric failures, but it certainly did and subsequently everything has been fine. Anyway, might be worth a look. Cheers david ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Winchurst" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [LUG] Ethernet?? > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:02:10 +0100 > Paul Clark <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > But what mainly puzzles me is that everything worked fine for the first >> > three months....[snip] >> >> I've hit problems with D-Link routers before where their DNS cache fills >> up and they then go sulky and need a reboot. The solution is to turn >> off DNS relay on the router and either put a real DNS server (from your >> ISP) in your /etc/resolv.conf, or (better) install bind and run a DNS >> cache locally. >> >> [On Debian, 'apt-get install bind9' and remove any 'nameserver' lines in >> /etc/resolv.conf] >> >> Not sure if this explains your Mandriva problems, though - never used it! >> >> Cheers >> >> Paul >> > Not sure that I understand all that. Perhaps I should mention that my > wife has a laptop computer (Windows XP, sorry about that) and she uses > my router (wireless) from another rooom. She has not had any problems > at all. > Neil > >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html