From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 11:53: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com [64.6.211.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3FB37B6CA for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:53:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04689; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:52:53 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: "Chris D'Annunzio" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing problem (Default Gateway?) on laptop Message-ID: <20000808115253.A4644@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <398E3E2B.DD48E30B@oz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <398E3E2B.DD48E30B@oz.net>; from cdann@oz.net on Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:42:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:42:20PM -0700, Chris D'Annunzio wrote: [snip] > I've got my default gateway entry specified appropriately in my rc.conf > file and I'm at a bit of a loss for what to try next. Could you show us, please? The gateway is (a) an IP address or a hostname defined in /etc/hosts and (b) actually a local address. Are there any error messages during boot about it? > Some interesting stuff that I think might be related: > When I issue a "netstat -r" command, it prints out the column headers > for the routing table and then just hangs. > If I issue a "route delete default" command and then the netstat command > it prints out the routing table correctly. > If I reassign the default gateway entry with a "route add default > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" command, netstat hangs again. Do a 'netstat -rn'. Your DNS server is not local? 'netstat -r' is trying to do a reverse-lookup on the addresses in the routing table. You're probably feeling the DNS time-out. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message