Long story short: a friend began the setup of a debian box for me (i'm a little overbusy with work and a very long commute), wasn't familiar with debian, never seemed to "get it," eventually gave up in frustration.
So, i'm now trying to decipher the setup of a box with stable r 6 installed. We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DNS router. The Debian box has a static routing path set up in the Linksys system. telnetd is running on the Debian box. >From one of the laptops we can telnet to the Debian box's IP address. The connection happens almost immediately (a log in syslog and, depending on the telnet client, the message that connection has been made appears). Then there is a very long wait before the login message appears. Running route (which takes a small forever) and route -n (which is quick) indicates that the problem is with DNS. We are not running a DNS server on the machine (yet). We've been stepping through the (old) network administration manual at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ Looking at the output of route, we note that there is no entry for destination 127.0.0.0 nor any entry for Iface=lo. We tried the command $ route add -net 127.0.0.0 and got the error SIOCADDRT: invalid argument. We looked at the ifconfig output for the lo device and noted that there is no broadcast IP and that BROADCAST isn't running. Is this a problem we need to fix? Lots of info below, Thanks for your help in advance. Cheers, judith :::::::::::::: /etc/resolv.conf :::::::::::::: # 020518 removed BIND # nameserver 127.0.0.1 # initial config: # search grey-cat.net # Speakeasy -- from Marty # nameserver 64.81.79.2 # Speakeasy -- from Marty # nameserver 216.231.41.2 # PacBell internet services nameserver 206.13.28.12 :::::::::::::: /etc/hosts :::::::::::::: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.30 martini.grey-cat.net martini :::::::::::::: 020518/ifconfig-1.out :::::::::::::: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:64:6B:97 inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x9000 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:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 :::::::::::::: 020518/route-1.out :::::::::::::: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.1.250 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 :::::::::::::: 020518/route-n-1.out :::::::::::::: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.250 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
