Networking Troubles

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:03:36AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:44:54PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>
>>resolv.conf:
>>nameserver 192.168.1.1
>>search gotdns.org
>>
>>network/interfaces:
>>allow-hotplug eth1 
>>iface eth1 inet static 
>>  address 192.168.1.251 
>>  netmask 255.255.255.0 
>>  network 192.168.1.0 
>>  broadcast 192.168.1.255 
>>  gateway 192.168.1.1 
>>  # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed 
>>  dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 
>>  dns-search gotdns.org
>>
>>hosts:
>>127.0.0.1 localhost
>>192.168.1.251 yam.gotdns.org yam
>
>UPDATE:
>
>Could this be a problem fixed by the route command?  I recall doing
>something with that once that fixed something like this.
>
>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.

On the machine where everything works beautifully, the output of route
is the same, but it is instant.
-- 

yours,

William

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