From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 10:16:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1B8515A1C for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 53943 invoked by uid 374); 29 Sep 1999 17:15:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:15:41 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: J McKitrick Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hostname resolving Message-ID: <19990929191541.G23989@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990928213408.G279@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 1999-09-28 (21:38), J McKitrick wrote: > Any idea why ping won't even work? could be routing problems I've seen this before. try a netstat -rn to show the routing tables. ( -n stops it trying to do a dns lookup) root@server2:/usr/local/etc# netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 196.25.141.129 UGSc 7 5820 rl0 10/24 link#1 UC 0 0 rl0 10.0.0.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 1 1390 rl0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 21 32242 lo0 192.168.1 link#1 UC 0 0 rl0 192.168.1.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 2 1707 rl0 check that your ppp device is the default route. Secondly if this is the case try connecting just using the IP. eg ping 192.168.1.1 or telnet 192.168.1.1 ( chosing the appropriate IP's for your ISP's machines) A good IP to test with is the IP of the gateway on the other side that you are connecting to. Barry -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Irwin IRC: balin@zanet (#linux) bvi@moria.org http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~bvi Whois BI414 - PMPN8EZ - http://moria.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message