Networking Troubles

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 14 15:18:59 UTC 2007


On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:53AM -0400, Dave Mason wrote:
>> I just ran route with no arguments, and got this:
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway     Genmask       Flags Metric Ref Use  Iface
>> localnet        *           255.255.255.0 U     0      0     0  eth1
>> default         192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0       UG    0      0     0  eth1
>> 
>> There was the characteristic pause between the localnet line and the
>> default line - as if it was waiting for a timeout.
>
>That was it doing a reverse lookup on 192.168.1.1, which of course
>doesn't exist.

It does exist - it's the router.
-- 

yours,

William

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