On Jun 18, Pete Templin wrote : : : Let me try some somewhat off-topic questions here: I really think the ISP : is clueless and not communicating the presence of our network to its : upstream provider. Could a bunch of you developers please try the : following three traceroute commands and tell me what you get? : : % traceroute 204.186.27.145
: % traceroute 204.186.230.1 : % traceroute 204.186.230.2 : : .27.145 is the modem and the connection to the Internet via the ISP. : .230.1 is the ethernet card in the Linux box, on the local area network. : .230.2 is the NT server which will be our second DNS server, etc. : : I seem to get caught in a routing loop at fngw-T3-prolog.NEREP.NET when I : try the second and third command, and it looks to me like that router is : misconfigured. The ISP claims that traceroute (and ping) won't work until : DNS is ready. Nonsens. May be they work slower, but they work. And you can always use ``-n'' to traceroute w/o name resolving. DNS is completely unrelated to routing. eremit:~ # traceroute 204.186.27.145 traceroute to 204.186.27.145 (204.186.27.145), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 icm-gate.saechsisches-elbland.de (194.123.25.190) 27.195 ms 27.054 ms 26.939 ms 2 ibh-gate1.ibh.net (194.45.31.29) 50.29 ms 50.01 ms 56.963 ms 3 ibh-gate.ibh.net (194.45.31.30) 51.76 ms 51.781 ms 51.19 ms 4 chemnitz.core.xlink.net (194.120.78.133) 57.25 ms 105.558 ms 58.361 ms 5 * * * 6 karlsruhe.core.xlink.net (194.122.225.1) 98.37 ms 96.781 ms 95.653 ms 7 frankfurt.core.xlink.net (194.122.225.42) 109.917 ms 113.131 ms 108.684 ms 8 Vienna2.VA.US.EU.net (134.222.19.1) 254.898 ms 259.182 ms 239.618 ms 9 San-Jose1.CA.US.EU.net (134.222.228.106) 792.154 ms 296.204 ms 260.284 ms 10 gsl-mae-w-fddi.gsl.net (198.32.136.94) 979.068 ms * 1518.2 ms 11 gsl-stock-1-Hssi4/0.gsl.net (204.59.128.33) 1920.53 ms 329.952 ms 321.473 ms 12 gsl-sl-stock-fddi.gsl.net (204.59.128.198) 312.614 ms 403.723 ms 297.429 ms 13 sl-stk-23-P4/0/0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.26) 543.649 ms 744.718 ms 599.111 ms 14 * sl-stk-20-P4/0/0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.21) 334.649 ms 331.505 ms 15 sl-stk-21-P4/0/0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.17) 301.825 ms 321.421 ms * 16 144.232.8.57 (144.232.8.57) 283.953 ms 291.426 ms 308.99 ms 17 sl-pen-22-F5/0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.60.22) 278.382 ms 280.623 ms 282.512 ms 18 144.232.168.2 (144.232.168.2) 300.747 ms 292.89 ms 295.388 ms 19 * * * 20 core01-abe-fe30-T3.FAST.NET (198.69.204.1) 318.931 ms 317.116 ms 312.133 ms 21 fngw-T3-prolog.NEREP.NET (205.147.225.6) 308.903 ms 336.497 ms 323.524 ms 22 gateway-s0.tv13.ptd.net (204.186.255.6) 388.148 ms 345.53 ms 356.983 ms 23 gateway-s0.mil.ptd.net (204.186.254.21) 432.429 ms 351.471 ms 493.89 ms 24 * * * 25 * * * ^C traceroute to 204.186.230.1 (204.186.230.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 icm-gate.saechsisches-elbland.de (194.123.25.190) 28.066 ms 31.566 ms 27.179 ms 2 ibh-gate1.ibh.net (194.45.31.29) 53.118 ms 50.551 ms 50.364 ms 3 ibh-gate.ibh.net (194.45.31.30) 58.86 ms 52.723 ms 52.477 ms 4 chemnitz.core.xlink.net (194.120.78.133) 64.676 ms 92.984 ms 98.325 ms 5 * * * 6 karlsruhe.core.xlink.net (194.122.225.1) 88.906 ms 81.939 ms 122.273 ms 7 frankfurt.core.xlink.net (194.122.225.42) 129.058 ms 115.213 ms 116.426 ms 8 Vienna2.VA.US.EU.net (134.222.19.1) 2005.84 ms 2280.09 ms 743.107 ms 9 San-Jose1.CA.US.EU.net (134.222.228.106) 627.704 ms 271.645 ms 273.687 ms 10 gsl-mae-w-fddi.gsl.net (198.32.136.94) 2948.17 ms 2681.96 ms 1974.74 ms 11 gsl-stock-1-Hssi4/0.gsl.net (204.59.128.33) 544.379 ms 703.606 ms 1471.63 ms 12 gsl-sl-stock-fddi.gsl.net (204.59.128.198) 495 ms 323.716 ms 320.277 ms 13 sl-stk-23-P4/0/0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.26) 470.4 ms 485.678 ms 648.39 ms 14 sl-stk-20-P4/0/0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.21) 373.106 ms 361.862 ms 304.152 ms 15 sl-stk-21-P4/0/0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.17) 318.659 ms 372.524 ms * 16 144.232.8.57 (144.232.8.57) 311.08 ms 301.47 ms 287.477 ms 17 sl-pen-22-F5/0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.60.22) 260.334 ms 285.043 ms 265.991 ms 18 144.232.168.2 (144.232.168.2) 290.843 ms 269.845 ms 299.547 ms 19 core02-abe-hssi0-0-0.nerep.net (206.245.159.33) 301.207 ms 338.254 ms 318.793 ms 20 core01-abe-fe30-T3.FAST.NET (198.69.204.1) 326.682 ms 336.889 ms 325.614 ms 21 fngw-T3-prolog.NEREP.NET (205.147.225.6) 445.769 ms 353.404 ms 327.593 ms 22 fngw-T3-prolog.NEREP.NET (205.147.225.6) 370.935 ms !H * 316.007 ms !H eremit:~ # Same for .2 : I also can't seem to get out of the intranet via the Linux diald machine. : I'm testing stuff using tracert under WinNT, and getting *'s. Here's the : output of route (I've tried cleaning it up manually, but it still doesn't : route): : : Kernel IP routing table : Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface : cs10.mil.ptd.ne * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1 ppp0 ~~~~~~~~ what is this route for? I'd assume, the default below is it really necessary for diald? : cs10.mil.ptd.ne * 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 sl0 ~~~~~~~~~ this should suffice, additional to the default entry below. If it's the host on the other end, your ISP. : 204.186.230.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 24 eth0 : 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 70 lo : default cs10.mil.ptd.ne 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 3 ppp0 : : I have created some accounts for generic testing. If any of are brave : enough to take a snoop on the actual machine, let me know and I'll "let : you in." ... yep, but how could we reach your host? Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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