F9 DOS?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:20:33AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
>> F9 Boot up this morning took forever. The system seemed to be stuck on starting
>> up sendmail. How to get around startups of services when startup hangs?

sendmail hanging at startup is usually a DNS problem as requests are 
timing out....

>> Also, My firewall is showing massive udp packets with state 1:0 from a single ip address
>> and I cannot ping to anything but my network ip address. Is this a sign of a DOS?
>> Everything was working great when I shutdown last night.

Not necessarily, it could just be that Comcast was screwed up for a 
while.  They do use human being to maintain their network, and human 
beings are known to make misteaks from time to time....

>> Thanks.
> 
> Well, around 1215 I booted up F9 and now everything is working normally.
> I have no idea what the problem was earlier unless Comcast was down.

Either its was Comcast, or the DOS stopped.  (yeah, I know, not too useful!)

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