Server is initializing itself

[Jeff Reasoner]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 00:24, Keith Woodworth wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Keith Woodworth wrote:
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> |->xfers deferred: 0
> |->soa queries in progress: 0
> |->query logging is OFF
> |->server is initialising itself
> |->
> |->I did this before when I put a new server online, same method, only diff
> |->is its bind 8.4.6, FBSD 4.11.
> |->
> |->Google doesnt come up with anything, searching the ISC archives now.
> |->
> |->What is the server doing? It says its ready, but ndc says its not
> |->initialzed yet?
> 
> Duh, I think I know what the deal is here, for some reason connectivity
> is whacked to that box. Its reachable locally via ssh, but for some damn
> reason cant get out past the default gateway so the server is trying to
> init with the root.hints.
> 
> damn everything is the same, IP, GW, mask, I can ping the default gateway

This could be the problem       ^
May be that the new machine has the same IP but a new NIC and the arp
cache on the default gw still has the old MAC address. If the cached
entry hasn't already expired, try flushing the arp cache with whatever
command your gw understands.

> for that vlan, but nothing is going past that GW to the next hop into my
> upstream.
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