Networking Troubles

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:03:36AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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.

Try ip route show or route -n.

The reason the line took time was the route command was waiting for dns
to resolve.  So nothing wrong with route, it is just being affected by
DNS issues like everything else.

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Len Sorensen
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