[OLUG] failures
Chad S. Lauritsen
csl at plconline.com
Thu Jan 6 19:07:52 UTC 2000
Hi Nate;
I don't see anything that raises any red flags from either the ifconfig output or the route
output. This is a baffling problem. A couple of questions for you:
1) What distribution are you using?
2) What does your system say when you enter the command 'rpm -q bind'
3) Did ping -n xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx work for you? If ping doesn't work at all, it might mean that you
have an incomplete installation??? Anyone??? You're not getting any error messages from ping, are
you?
Some things to try:
1) When you brink up the link to your ISP, run the ifconfig command. For the ppp0 interface get
the point-to-point IP number (the one after P-t-P:) and see if you can 'ping -n' that number.
2) in /etc/resolv.conf, you had a line that said 'search'. Try changing it to say 'search
radiks.net'
I don't think that the problem is the 255.255.255.255 netmask...that's what I have always got when
I dial in and it works. Whether it's theoretically correct or not, I don't know.
Nathan Brown wrote:
> I'm going to try to get this in here with better format at least I cannot read it so here is
> another try .... I don't understand why mail messes it up but i hat it right when it went on
> the page before .. here goes
> $ /sbin/ifconfig
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:o overruns:0 frame:0
> TX Packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-toPoint Protocol
> inet addr:205.232.68.9 P-t-P:207.232.65.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1
> RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
> $
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> destination Gateway Genmask
> 207.132.65.1 * 255.255.255.255
> 127.0.0.0 * 225.0.0.0
> default 207.232.65.1 0.0.0.0
>
> Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> U 0 0 0 lo
> UG 0 0 0 ppp0
>
> Ok this is easier to read and maybe mail will not disconfigure it but for some reason it is
> losing my tabs i must have the width set wrong or something like that i don't know. Any how if
> it's wrong when I get it back i will fix it again.
>
> Oh if anyone wants to know this is the output of "ifconfig and route
>
> Thanks
> Nate
> Patrick Swartz wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone, correct me if I'm wrong, but 255.255.255.255 is NOT a vaild
> > net mask. An invalid netmask can cause lots-o-problems. I apologize for
> > jumping in the middle of this discussion, but that just stood out to me.
> >
> > Have a great day.
> >
> > Patrick Swartz
> > RHCE,MCP
> > pswartz at digitalrom.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nathan Brown <tbrown at radiks.net>
> > To: olug at bstc.net <olug at bstc.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: [OLUG] failures
> >
> > >Nothing has changed it still gets the page or the connection withthe # and
> > not with the
> > >name.
> > >
> > >here is my reports from my ifconfig and my route
> > >
> > >$ /sbin/ifconfig
> > >lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3924 Metric:1
> > > RX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:o overruns:0 frame:0
> > > TX Packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >
> > >ppp0 Link encap:Point-toPoint Protocol
> > > inet addr:205.232.68.9 P-t-P:207.232.65.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
> > > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1
> > > RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > > TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > > Collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
> > >$
> > >
> > >
> > >Kernel IP routing table
> > >Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
> > >Metric Ref Use Iface
> > >207.132.65.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH
> > >0 0 0 ppp0
> > >127.0.0.0 * 225.0.0.0 U
> > >0 0 0 lo
> > >default 207.232.65.1 0.0.0.0 UG
> > >0 0 0 ppp0
> > >
> > >This is the best i could do by typing into Gnotepad saving as
> > >/mnt/hda1/LINUXSTUFF/ifconfrout. but it did work lol
> > >somehow it looks different here though!
> > >I'm getting so much instruction now that im having trouble keeping up with
> > it
> > >
> > >thanks again
> > >Nate
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Dave Burchell wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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
> > >> Free your mind and your software will follow. 402-467-1619
> > >> http://incolor.inetnebr.com/burchell/ burchell at acm.org
> > >>
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