Is Netinfo unstable in 10.4.9 or .10 ?

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Hello Nat!

I have what seems to be exactly the same problem; Mac Mini, 10.4.10, every
so often it responds to nothing but PING. I do not reboot (it's a remote
machine); rather I just wait, and within an hour or so it's back. The system
log shows just the messages you quote.

Have you found anything out?

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I tried to send this message some days ago, but there was a delay at the
MacOSX end; new posts have appeared. Wrt to the latests posts about the
lookupd hang... I have that problem on a different machine (PB17" 1GHz PPC
laptop), and so am familiar with it; and I usually reboot to fix.
Interesting point tho' is that the Mini (above) =fixes itself= after about
1/2 hour (varies). I do not reboot.

Also the Mini is remote, and no-one is using it eg for web-lookups (one of
the rumoured causes of the lookupd problem).

N


Nat! wrote:
> 
> I have a few MacMinis that I administrate and very unfortunately  
> lately from time to time, about once a week or so, the machine _can_  
> be pinged but otherwise just refuses to serve.
> 
> When I look into the system log after reboot, I see messages like:
> 
> Aug  2 10:19:07 minihost DirectoryService[52]: SafeOpen::Call to  
> netinfo_open was with argument domain name: .. and lasted 3 seconds  
> while timeout was 3
> Aug  2 10:19:17 minihost DirectoryService[52]: NetInfo connection  
> failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
> 
> After a reboot everything may work fine again for a few days.
> There is nothing special with these Minis. The Netinfo is only used  
> for its default OSX purposes.
> Nameservers are ISP nameservers.
> Looking at the log it seems that the netinfo daemon just likes to go  
> on strike occasionally.
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Ciao
>     Nat!
> 

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