Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:40 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: bartling@ibmoto.com (Steve Bartling) Cc: bartling@ibmoto.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SLIP, help me, oh please HELP ME :-) Message-ID: <9412302110.AA08570@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199412301931.NAA31027@bartling.ibmoto.com> from "Steve Bartling" at Dec 30, 94 01:31:22 pm
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> > > 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
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