From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 14:33:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cwalk.org (cx521708-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.177.2.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE7037B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from butthead.walker (butthead.walker [192.168.1.10]) by cwalk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA18400; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwalker@cwalk.org) From: Caleb Walker To: Raymond Law , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS or routing problem? Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:31:01 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <39BC1068.63E19FD8@vt.edu> <4.3.0.20000911172353.00b10640@mail.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000911172353.00b10640@mail.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00091114325102.00245@butthead.walker> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- You can ping the router? or yourself? or the loopback?(127.0.0.1)? or other host on your subnet? On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Raymond Law wrote: #Just after reboot, I couldn't ping my default router and my DNS server or #anywhere in the world: # #$ ping www.vt.edu #ping: sendto: cannot resolve www.vt.edu: Host name lookup failure #$ ping 198.82.82.1 (my default router) #ping: sendto: Host is down #$ ping 198.82.82.66 (my first nameserver in resolv.conf) #ping: sendto: No route to host # #I do have defaultrouter="198.82.82.1" in my /etc/rc.conf. I can get #connectivity only after I do a "dnsquery www.vt.edu" ( it fails the first #few times also). But after some time, it loses connectivty again. # #I guess it is more of a routing problem than DNS problem, but jsut couldn't #figure it out. # #Ray, # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: U80mzVZ6hKt2XWDKcttPeHlX252zvE+s iQA/AwUBOb1Pgx7u1vJ5ZVWEEQIWzgCeJL6TYFfLyHBsw3UkBOWFMQz7lcEAoIbR GZUrzeZKiFl78KZ2Yq5c898W =gzyA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message