Re: "route" problem

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:14:09 -0500

In article <1107092032.474519.146650@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "Strikz" <dejanews@strikz.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a main Solaris 8 NIS server that until recently was running fine,
> but it hadn't been rebooted in several months. It lost power, and when
> I recovered it I found it freezes on boot-up.
>
> I was able to get into single user mode, and add a set -x to the
> inetinit script. As the machine normally boots it runs inetinit and
> during that script the "route" command is run to add the default
> gateway. This is where apparently the machine halts.
>
> If I remove defaultrouter, then on boot the machine does come all the
> way up. I can access the server from the same subnet, but not from
> others (obviously). If I then manually run the route command, it halts
> that telnet session (I'm not able to CTRL-C out). The "route" binary
> looks ok, FILE tells me its a sparc binary. I also think all the lib
> files required are ok too.
>
> A colleague of mine thinks the route program is waiting on the network
> to respond with something that its not getting. But all of the NIS

Route doesn't normally send anything over the network, unless you give
it a hostname rather than an IP address, in which case it may have to
use NIS or DNS to resolve the name. But that shouldn't cause an
unkillable hang.

> clients use the same gateway and they all boot-up fine.
> Any idea how I can diagnose this more? Or what might be going on?

Not sure, but to narrow it down further, try running:

truss route add default ....

to see what system call it's hanging in. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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