Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs
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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, esoR ocsirF wrote:
> I just installed a potato box via the usuall minimal slink then point
> apt at potato scenario. I experienced the same problem reported in this
> thread, namely no name resolution but IP worked just fine.
>
> I finally was able to fix it by changing /etc/init.d/network
> the gateway was left unspecified so I changed it to XXX.XXX.XXX.1
> where the X's represent your IP subnet. I don't know if this was the
> whole problem but name resolution started working after I made this
> change. HTH
Just out of curiousity, i checked the /etc/init.d/network file on my
potato box, even though all networking works fine. Turns out the ip
address, gateway, and everything in there was incorrect (it had been
correct 10 months ago when i installed it).
Didn't make any difference here anyway, since i use dhcp to get my
ethernet ip address (as opposed to the ppp ip address when the box isn't
on the ethernet).
I'm not sure why connections would work with ip addresses any better than
names if no gateway was specified... Still, has anyone checked the routing
table (/sbin/route) when it's working and not working?
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