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by **Dirk Moolma** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:50:58

First I must specify, I am new in the world of unix administration, and also
do not know much about networking.

I have a problem on AIX 4.3.3 - I have one server that some users can ping,
and others not. My network administrator tells me there is something wrong
on the server, and not on the network.

The connection was fine until later yesterday. What can I look for - any
ideas ?

Regards
Dirk

by **Alan Do** » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:33:46

Have you checked your subnets?

> First I must specify, I am new in the world of unix administration, and also
> do not know much about networking.

> I have a problem on AIX 4.3.3 - I have one server that some users can ping,
> and others not. My network administrator tells me there is something wrong
> on the server, and not on the network.

> The connection was fine until later yesterday. What can I look for - any
> ideas ?

> Regards
> Dirk

by **cyberba** » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:56:22

please post the error message when other servers can't ping your server,
hope can get clue from it.

regards

*baby

by **Steve Johns** » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 04:38:29

> please post the error message when other servers can't ping your server,
> hope can get clue from it.

> regards

> *baby

Look at netstat -i to check your interfaces.
look at netstat -r to check your routes
use entstat to check for errors on the interfaces.

use ping -R or traceroute to try and identify where the packets maybe getting
stopped.

by **Ron Gran** » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:49:33

If the folks that can't ping are not in the same subnet as the server
but the users that can are, it could be that the default gateway for
the server is missing or incorrect. Packets sent in hit the server
but the reply doesn't come back. It is hard to say without more
information.

Good luck.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:50:58 +0200, "Dirk Moolman"

>First I must specify, I am new in the world of unix administration, and also
>do not know much about networking.

>I have a problem on AIX 4.3.3 - I have one server that some users can ping,
>and others not. My network administrator tells me there is something wrong
>on the server, and not on the network.

>The connection was fine until later yesterday. What can I look for - any
>ideas ?

>Regards
>Dirk

by **Dirk Moolma** » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:19:54

Thank you for the replies eveyone. I will keep the suggestions in my
knowledge base. I rebooted the server before I got any of your replies, and
the connection was ok again. Unfortunately my knowledge is too little to
explain what happened and why it was fixed with the reboot.

Regards
Dirk

Quote:> First I must specify, I am new in the world of unix administration, and
also
> do not know much about networking.

> I have a problem on AIX 4.3.3 - I have one server that some users can
ping,
> and others not. My network administrator tells me there is something wrong
> on the server, and not on the network.

> The connection was fine until later yesterday. What can I look for - any
> ideas ?

> Regards
> Dirk

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