[plug] route problems

[Garry]

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Mageaere wrote:
| I just installed Debian from the dvd from APC and I am having difficulty
| getting on the net.
|
| At first I had the problem of kppp wanting to authenticate the isp server
| but I fixed that so that is no longer a problem.
|
| When I dial up the connection is made and ifconfig shows that I have
| a ppp connection and it shows the ip address I was assigned and the ip
| address at the isp's end with the netmask of 255.255.255.255.
|
| I can successfull ping the ip address of the isp's end of the ppp link
| but nothing behind it. Have tried automatic DNS server assignment and
| manually settign the DNS servers without any joy.
|
| Then I decided to have a look at the route table and something wierd
| happened. I type in the route command as root and press enter. I get
| the headings for the route entries and then the program hangs. I get
| exactly the same thing when I use netstat -r. I then need to ctrl-c out
| of it to do anything else.
|
| If anybody has any ideas I could sure use them.
|
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You might find the route command is just VERY slow. I've had that
before, but it is fast atm.

In /etc/resolv.conf , make sure you have one or more entries like these..
nameserver 202.72.191.199
nameserver 203.10.1.9

These are for Westnet, but if you are with a sus ISP with dodgy
nameservers - (bigpond recently from memory..) I guess you could use
another ISP's nameserver as 3rd nameserver. I don't know the netiquette
for this though.. 8^)==


HTH

Garry

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