Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:52:43 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netstat problems. Message-ID: <3A8D5ADB.3DF49807@i-clue.de> References: <001501c0982b$e4533d50$0701a8c0@darryl>
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Darryl Hoar schrieb: > > Greetings, > I am running 4.0-release. This machine is running userland ppp > with -auto -nat flags. It acts as a gateway to the internet for my > LAN. The link to the internet is a dialup and ip is dynamically > assigned by ISP. > > My problem is that when I run netstat -r to examine the routing > tables, the command hangs and never responds. After a couple > minutes I control C to kill it. If I reboot, same story. Maybe a > line or two, but never completes and takes me back to the > command prompt. > > Any ideas what's up with this ? You have not setup our nameserver properly. netstat -r tries to reverse lookup the names for all the machines in the routing table. Each lookup times out after about a minute. Even if you have only minimal entries in your routing tables, lookups need a couple of minutes to time out. A simple workaround is to use netstat -rn instead: this way netstat uses IP numbers instead of names. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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