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Re: SLIP, help me, oh please HELP ME :-)
- To: bartling@xxxxxxxxxx (Steve Bartling)
- Subject: Re: SLIP, help me, oh please HELP ME :-)
- From: Joe Greco <jgreco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:40 -0600 (CST)
- Cc: bartling@xxxxxxxxxx, freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, freebsd-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <199412301931.NAA31027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Steve Bartling" at Dec 30, 94 01:31:22 pm
- Sender: questions-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > netstat -r does not work ( it hangs ).
> >
> > Fix likely problems first: you are setting up nameservice and then trying to
> > use it over a (possibly) incompletely configured link. Change the "route
> > add" to something like
>
> I forgot to mention that htp1 was defined in my /etc/hosts file.
>
> I'll try this, thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Anyone care to hazard a guess as to why this worked before but does not
> work now ?
netstat -r "hanging" is a typical sign that your system is trying to do DNS
lookups on names - and if you configure a resolv.conf, host.conf tells it to
do this. Whether or not it's in /etc/hosts may or may not matter, depending
on what's been set up in host.conf.
... Joe
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Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@xxxxxxxxxx
Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
