route, ping, where's the net?

[Joseph Kubik]

Does route -n work, but not route
-Joseph-

On 11/4/05, Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Peter King wrote:
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> > The answer to this has *got* to be simple, but I just can't see it.
> >
> > I have a Sun Ultra-1 running Gentoo-Sparc64. I can ping any address
> > on the internet just fine. When I run ifconfig the ethernet cards are
> > properly detected and given their correct values.
> >
> > But, when I run route, the system just sits there -- I don't get any
> > kernel routing table.
> >
> > When I run netstat -nr, though, I do get a routing table... though not
> > with netstat -r. Well, the only difference is DNS, right? But then I
> > don't see why pinging domain names should work (and it does).
> >
> > If I try to add a default route like so:
> >
> > #route add default gw 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1>
> >
> > it responds with a message that the file exists. (Huh?)
> >
> > This has *got* to be something low-level and obvious that I'm just not
> > seeing. Suggestions? What should I try next?
>
> firewall ? /etc/host.conf ? other DNS issues ? (like, is the host
> running an unconfigured dns ?) Try /sbin/route in case there is another
> route in the path.
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> Peter
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