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From: urban@randvax.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: 4.3bsd hostname->IP address lossage?
Message-ID: <2437@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 20:04:20 GMT
Reply-To: urban@rand.org (Mike Urban)
Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.
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Twice in the last month we have experienced a situation in
which two or more Vaxen running 4.3bsd *simultaneously* lose
their ability to map host names to their IP addresses.  
Rebooting alleviates the symptom, so it is not the disappearance
of a file or anything similar.  Most peculiar is the fact that
the event appears to happen at the same time on unrelated systems running
vanilla 4.3bsd; no NFSish tricks are involved.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?  What sort of 
Remarkable Event could trigger this syndrome?  How can
it be corrected short of a reboot.

	Mike
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	Mike Urban
	urban@rand.ORG