Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
further to that last email, I just did:
route
and while localnet appears immediately, the default gateway takes about 5
minutes to appear. When it does appear it looks correct (as compared to my
other box with a similar configuration) however I still have no access into
or out of this box.
Rachel
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Rachel,
Most of the times I have seen this sort of behaviour, It has been due to
an incorrect DNS lookup. The DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf don't have
any idea about the IP number requested and "times-out". Five minutes is
a bit long for this process, however.
Another possiblility is that you have eht0 setup to use dhcp and it is
trying to get an IP assignment from a dhcp server, and it the server) is
NOT responding. Once again the 5 minute delay is a "time-out" from the
dhcp server...which also will try to set your DNS servers in
/etc/resolv.conf depending on the dhcp client you are using.
You have not given us much info about your hardware setup, so it is hard
to determine the EXACT cause. If your ISDN router is also doing Network
Address Translation (NAT), and is supposed to be a dhcp server, it
"should" work if you have eth0 setup to use dhcp. The main suspect here
would be the DNS settings in /etc/resolve.conf. On the other hand if
your ISDN Router is expecting a "static" IP and eth0 is setup to use
dhcp, then you probably should change it to use a "static" IP in
/etc/network/interfaces. Again, you will have to have some "good" DNS
servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf.
If you have other machines on the network and can ping them by IP number
(the gateway after it comes up in "route" is a good one to try) but not
by name, then this is almost diagnostic of improper DNS servers. If you
cannot ping even the gateway, then something is wrong with the NIC
setup. I doesn't sound like this is the case here, though.
The results of "ifconfig", "route" and "lsmod" commands would be helpful
in diagnosing the problem. Also a copy of your /etc/network/interfaces
file would be helpful.
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
