Running Software Checks

If the network has problems, diagnose and fix software-related problems by acting in one of the following ways:

• Use the netstat command to display network information.

• Check the hosts database (and ipnodes if you are using IPv6) to ensure that the entries are correct and current.

• If you are running RARP, check the Ethernet addresses in the ethers database to ensure that the entries are correct and current.

• Try to connect to the local host by using telnet.

• Ensure that the network daemon inetd is running. Log in as superuser and type the following:

  # ps -ef | grep inetd

The following example shows the output when the inetd daemon is running:

root 57 1 0 Apr 04 ? 3:19 /usr/sbin/inetd -s
root 4218 4198 0 17:57:23 pts/3 0:00 grep inetd