[plug] route problems

[Mageaere]

Well I figured out the problem. There was a package called diald. This
acts as an autodialler whenever you need net resources. As such it was
behaving as it was the ultimate default gateway and was preventing kppp
from getting a lookin. Once I uninstalled that everything was fine. 

On Sat, 29 May 2004 04:04:56 -0700 Garry <garbuck at westnet.com.au> wrote:

>| 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.

>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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