From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 10:21:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA14309 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA14302 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:21:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.3/8.7.5) id LAA26283; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:21:20 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199612041821.LAA26283@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:21:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: victor@vas.tomsk.su In-Reply-To: <199612041658.IAA00184@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Dec 4, 96 08:58:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The following works: > > ping localhost > telnet localhost > > This DOES NOT work: > > ping vas.tomsk.su > telnet vas.tomsk.su > > I think this is where the problem is. There is no route and no > interface for 10.0.0.1 > > But I have no idea how I could tune the appropriate interface. > I have tun and sl devices compiled into the kernel but I have > only dynamic IP address so I cannot have something like > ifconfig_tun0 in my /etc/sysconfig. Or can I? > > I would very much appreciate any input especially from those > people who do not have a permanent IP address and no local > network. How do you tune your /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig? The simplest solution may be to buy a cheap ethernet card and give that a permanent address, say 192.168.1.1. Give this interface a name in your /etc/hosts file and make this the system name. UNIX is showing its age in this area; the mapping between the system name and multiple, perhaps temporary IP addresses is not well thought out. Wes Peters -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com