From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 18:44:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA29588 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:44:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from beaver.cs.washington.edu (beaver.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29583 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:44:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.com [128.95.3.1]) by beaver.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.1be+) with SMTP id SAA28863; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from athena.tera.com by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA03101; Wed, 3 Jan 96 18:43:30 PST From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <9601040243.AA03101@tera.com> Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:43:43 -0800 (PST) Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 3, 96 09:20:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Chuck Robey: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > Last Sunday I managed to auto-retrieve the file cnews.tar.Z > > by typing ``make'' in the /cdrom/ports dir. Now, while trying > > to build elm, this happened: > > [[ ... ]] > > > > What did I do? I remember adding some lines to /etc/sysconfig and > > two new sites to /etc/resolv.conf. When I do a `ps ax' I see > > ncftp trying to retrieve the elm tar file... > > > > Ideas, net gurus??? > > > > gary kline > > Gary, I usually get this when I've screwed up my resolv.conf. You could > check it pretty easily, by trying to ping one of the sites. Two very > likley possibilities are that 1) you have a bad address for a nameserver > and a backup nameserver in your /etc/resolv.conf or 2) your default route > to the world, even for your access to your nameserver, is gone. Check > the last by doing a netstat -rn (don't forget the -rn) to examine your > routing tables. > Hm, well, I can't say that this makes much sense [[ the netstat -rn ]]. [418] netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 128.95.3.1 UGc 2 17 tun0 112 128.95.3.70 USc 1 0 tun0 128.95 128.95.3.96 UGc 0 0 tun0 128.95.3 128.95.3.96 UGc 3 4 tun0 128.95.3.71 128.95.3.96 UGH 0 0 tun0 128.95.3.96 128.95.3.70 UH 8 0 tun0 128.95.3.130 128.95.3.96 UGH 0 0 tun0 192.1.1 128.95.3.96 UGc 1 0 tun0 [419] The Gateway IP's are familiar. I just ping'd the nameservers and they are all reachable (at 18:30 PST). [440] cat resolv.conf # # resolv.conf :: created on 18dec95 # domain thought.org # nameserver 158.152.1.193 nameserver 158.152.1.65 # # added 02jan96 :: # ###nameserver 192.135.189.20 ###nameserver 192.135.189.10 :: 03jan96 [441] Should netstat list the nameservers? It looks like my net configuration is missing _something_. What, I don't know.... unless I am limited to only 2 nameservers. (??) ...Thanks. *sigh* gary