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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:08:19 -0500
From:      "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        "Chris D'Annunzio" <cdann@oz.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Routing problem (Default Gateway?) on laptop
Message-ID:  <01b501c001af$12b12e00$ae440ace@mark8>
References:  <398E3E2B.DD48E30B@oz.net>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris D'Annunzio" <cdann@oz.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 11:42 PM
Subject: Routing problem (Default Gateway?) on laptop


> Hello,
>
> Working on setting up FreeBSD 4.1 on my laptop (Dell Latitude CPi) and
> having a problem communicating outside my LAN.  I struggled a bit with
> my PCMCIA network card (LinkSys EtherFast PCMPC100 10/100), but seem to
> have it up and configured now.
>
> I can ping all hosts on my local network segment including my default
> gateway, but I can't ping any outside hosts including my DNS server.
> All other hosts on the same network segement are communicating fine.
>
> I've got my default gateway entry specified appropriately in my rc.conf
> file and I'm at a bit of a loss for what to try next.
>

You need  to give the address of your DNS server in the file
/etc/resolv.conf
put in a line like this:

nameserver 209.98.xx.xx
use the ip address for your nameserver of course.

Josh



> Some interesting stuff that I think might be related:
> When I issue a "netstat -r" command, it prints out the column headers
> for the routing table and then just hangs.
> If I issue a "route delete default" command and then the netstat command
> it prints out the routing table correctly.
> If I reassign the default gateway entry with a "route add default
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" command, netstat hangs again.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
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