Sylvain Fauvel <fauvel@nospam.inrs-emt.uquebec.ca> wrote in message news:<c6b8tj$672$1@Tropolix.UQSS.UQuebec.CA>...
> Hello,
>
> I have a server that is unusable through telnet and ftp connections.
> If i log a the console everything is fine. If i do rlogin from
> another host it is slow. The server will answer from time to time
> but most of the time it just freeze and does not answer for
> several minutes.
>
> CPU is 99.5% idle, RAM used is under 5%, swap is similar.. No disks
> are full. "perfmeter" show minimal usage. Only context change seem
> a bit frequent but i am not sure if this is not normal.
>
> All i had running on this is a web server (JavaWebServer) but if i
> deactivate it and reboot, the behaviour is the same, slow for
> rlogin connections.
>
> The server is running under solaris 5.8 and has been stable for years
> before i got this problem.
>
> Sylvain


Check resolve.conf and nsswitch.conf to start.

--Dave