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From: ktso@dcns.csc.cuhk.edu.hk (SO Kwok Tsun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-... random reboots?
Date: 8 Apr 1997 09:59:27 GMT
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Tony Griffiths (tonyg@OntheNet.com.au) wrote:
: SO Kwok Tsun wrote:
: > We have the same problem with squid running in 2.1.7.  I am not sure
: > whether it's caused by the Adaptec 2940 driver bug anyway.
: I'm now running squid on a 2.1.7.1 system and it's now been up for 3
: days without problems.
: There were some problems that were caused by a bad memory SIMM and
: possibly the 2940 but since the upgrade to 2.1.7.1 and the removal
: of the bad RAM, no problems...
: How often does you system fall over?

It's about once per few days.  However, we meet another problem after
upgrading to 2.2.1.  The function gethostbyname() always return NULL
and make squid fail to pass the DNS test & lookup.

So K T, CUHK