route, ping, where's the net?

[Joseph Kubik]

Lennart is correct.
You have a reverse DNS lookup problem.
run `host [hostname]`
Verify that `host <IP_that_host_returned>` returns the exact same hostname
that you fed in.

Cheers,
-Joseph-

On 11/4/05, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:21:25PM -0500, Joseph Kubik wrote:
>
> > Does route -n work, but not route
>
> Yes! route -n gives me the same as netstat -nr, whereas route and
> netstat -r each fail. There's a lesson in here but I don't know what
> it is yet.
>
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