Periodic Slow Downs - (FIX)

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Thanks for all the help with this one.

It may have been fixed.

Just to remind:

The Linux server had IP addresses:

123.123.123.123 [Internal]
456.456.456.456 [External]

**both fake**

There was a phantom IP address of:

123.123.123.1

Which was causing the error:

[2005/11/25 11:54:17, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail(488)
  get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail:
  Doing a node status request to the domain master browser at IP 123.123.123.1 
failed.
  Cannot get workgroup name.

This would bring the network to a crawl. The IP address (123.123.123.1) was 
checked to mot be used on any PC, Router, Server, etc.

The command: /sbin/arp -e would show the IP 123.123.123.1 as (incomplete) in 
the ARP table.

The Fix / Kludge:

Add the IP address 123.123.123.1 to the interface 123.123.123.123 as a virtual 
interface. Now the IP address can be found in the ARP table and the network 
does not crawl every 15 minutes.

Comments: If your network goes down every 15 minutes and you have windows / 
Samba boxes then chances are it is a node status request error and there 
could be a phantom IP address lying around.

Hope this helps someone one day.

Cheers && Thanks for all the help.

Piers