Matt Camp
After much playing with ktrace and kdump, found what it was barfing on.
The 192.168.0.33 and 192.168.0.34 addresses for the telecom DSL radius proxies... which weren't in /etc/hosts.
Adding them fixed it.
Now, the big question is, Why has this worked fine for 6 months, and only decided to crap out today?
I'd guess that it was being rather dumb about trying to look up reverse map entries for these in the DNS. 168.192.in-addr.arpa is delegated to blackhole.ep.net and blackhole.isi.edu, of which the ep.net name servers don't seem to be responding at the moment. Idea: create empty zones for 168.192.in-addr.arpa zones on your DNS forwarders to intercept such lookups and give immediate errors, rather than waiting on the blackhole... servers to fail to answer. -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog