Dear Managers,
System Configuration:
  HW: 2 AlphaServer GS80 systems; 4 CPUs each; 4GB Memory each;
  Storage:  EMA12000 Disk Array connecting via Fibre Channel
  OS:  Tru64 UNIX Version 5.1A; TruCluster Server Version 5.1A; Memory 
Channel Cluster Interconnect
Problem:
Suddenly all nodes in the cluster give approximately a 50-second delay 
before offering the "login:" prompt whenever a user does a telnet to 
that node.  From any node in the network, whenever the user does a 
telnet <cluster-member IP Address or Cluster-Alias IP Address> you get 
that delay.  Even if the telnet client is one of the nodes whose IP 
address to hostname mapping is in the DNS or the /etc/hosts file of the 
cluster.  Even when the telnet client is one of the cluster member 
nodes, you still get the delay.  Even when you do a telnet localhost on 
one of the cluster members you get the delay.
I have never before seen this peculiar combination of circumstances and 
I was wondering if any of you can give me some kind of insight into this 
problem.  Normally I would check the DNS setup and the resolv.conf and 
the svc.conf files, restart network services and all would be well, but 
this time I just don't seem to be able to get it right.
I had posted a submission about this **very** early Thursday morning, 
but I got no replies.   Maybe I was too incoherent from lack of sleep 
then, so I am posting again.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Honore.
Received on Fri Aug 15 2003 - 16:13:42 NZST