From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 16:51:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDC2151FB for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11WTV8-000EAr-00; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:51:10 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA39416; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:51:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:51:09 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Barry Irwin Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hostname resolving In-Reply-To: <19990929191541.G23989@rucus.ru.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, i have the default listed as one address, and then a local starting with 10. But when i ping both of them, i get ping: sendto: permission denied I also cannot telnet to an IP address directly. What could be causing this? jcm On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Barry Irwin wrote: |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