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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:31:01 -0700
From:      Caleb Walker <cwalker@cwalk.org>
To:        Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS or routing problem?
Message-ID:  <00091114325102.00245@butthead.walker>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000911172353.00b10640@mail.vt.edu>
References:  <39BC1068.63E19FD8@vt.edu> <4.3.0.20000911172353.00b10640@mail.vt.edu>

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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,
#


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