[OLUG] failures

[Dave Burchell]

Chad S. Lauritsen says:
> 
> Of course in my long-winded rambling, I forgot to remember that you had
> successfully connected to olug.bstc.net using the IP numbers with netscape, didn't
> you? If you did, then there is nothing wrong with your default route...probably
> still a DNS issue. You may need to be a little more patient with ping...it might
> take a few seconds to show some life.

If you say

  ping -n 165.83.168.1

(or whatever ip address) then ping will not try to use DNS, it will just
try to contact the ip address you gave.

Keep in mind that it is possible that your basic network setup was working
before (when you used the ip address of olug.bstc.net to get the page) and
is now broken.

Send us the output of the commands /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route if
you could please.  Mine look like this:

$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:13065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:C9:AB:2D:48  
          inet addr:165.83.168.9  Bcast:165.83.168.127  Mask:255.255.255.128
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:00000002:00A0C9AB2D48
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18226765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16549093 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:26 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 
          Interrupt:14 Base address:0xf4e0 

$ /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
localnet        *               255.255.255.128 U     0      0     1810 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0       31 lo
default         gateway.mwac.np 0.0.0.0         UG    1      0      141 eth0

Yours should have ppp0 (or the like) as the "default" route and as an
entry in the ifconfig output.

-- 
Dave Burchell                                          40.49'N, 96.41'W
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