From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 30 13:14:27 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA00851 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 13:14:27 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA00845; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 13:14:25 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08570; Fri, 30 Dec 94 15:10:40 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9412302110.AA08570@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: SLIP, help me, oh please HELP ME :-) To: bartling@ibmoto.com (Steve Bartling) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:40 -0600 (CST) Cc: bartling@ibmoto.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199412301931.NAA31027@bartling.ibmoto.com> from "Steve Bartling" at Dec 30, 94 01:31:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 922 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847