[OLUG] failures
Patrick Swartz
pswartz at digitalrom.com
Thu Jan 6 13:20:58 UTC 2000
Hello everyone, correct me if I'm wrong, but 255.255.255.255 is NOT a vaild
net mask. An invalid netmask can cause lots-o-problems. I apologize for
jumping in the middle of this discussion, but that just stood out to me.
Have a great day.
Patrick Swartz
RHCE,MCP
pswartz at digitalrom.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Brown <tbrown at radiks.net>
To: olug at bstc.net <olug at bstc.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [OLUG] failures
>Nothing has changed it still gets the page or the connection withthe # and
not with the
>name.
>
>here is my reports from my ifconfig and my route
>
>$ /sbin/ifconfig
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:o overruns:0 frame:0
> TX Packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
>ppp0 Link encap:Point-toPoint Protocol
> inet addr:205.232.68.9 P-t-P:207.232.65.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1
> RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>$
>
>
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
>Metric Ref Use Iface
>207.132.65.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH
>0 0 0 ppp0
>127.0.0.0 * 225.0.0.0 U
>0 0 0 lo
>default 207.232.65.1 0.0.0.0 UG
>0 0 0 ppp0
>
>This is the best i could do by typing into Gnotepad saving as
>/mnt/hda1/LINUXSTUFF/ifconfrout. but it did work lol
>somehow it looks different here though!
>I'm getting so much instruction now that im having trouble keeping up with
it
>
>thanks again
>Nate
>
>
>
>
>
>Dave Burchell wrote:
>
>> Chad S. Lauritsen says:
>> >
>> > Of course in my long-winded rambling, I forgot to remember that you had
>> > successfully connected to olug.bstc.net using the IP numbers with
netscape, didn't
>> > you? If you did, then there is nothing wrong with your default
route...probably
>> > still a DNS issue. You may need to be a little more patient with
ping...it might
>> > take a few seconds to show some life.
>>
>> If you say
>>
>> ping -n 165.83.168.1
>>
>> (or whatever ip address) then ping will not try to use DNS, it will just
>> try to contact the ip address you gave.
>>
>> Keep in mind that it is possible that your basic network setup was
working
>> before (when you used the ip address of olug.bstc.net to get the page)
and
>> is now broken.
>>
>> Send us the output of the commands /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route if
>> you could please. Mine look like this:
>>
>> $ /sbin/ifconfig
>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
>> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
>> RX packets:13065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:13065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> Collisions:0
>>
>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:AB:2D:48
>> inet addr:165.83.168.9 Bcast:165.83.168.127
Mask:255.255.255.128
>> IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:00000002:00A0C9AB2D48
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:18226765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:16549093 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:26 carrier:0
>> Collisions:0
>> Interrupt:14 Base address:0xf4e0
>>
>> $ /sbin/route
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
>> localnet * 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 1810
eth0
>> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 31
lo
>> default gateway.mwac.np 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 141
eth0
>>
>> Yours should have ppp0 (or the like) as the "default" route and as an
>> entry in the ifconfig output.
>>
>> --
>> Dave Burchell 40.49'N, 96.41'W
>> Free your mind and your software will follow. 402-467-1619
>> http://incolor.inetnebr.com/burchell/ burchell at acm.org
>>
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