sberger@nmsu.edu ( Steve Berger ) (06/18/91)
I have a DecStation 3100 that is having major network problems if I do a netstat -r there are hundreds of entries instead of the usual 3 or 4 I can reach things if I ping or telnet to a specific address, but if I give it a host name, the request never goes through. What is going on? The ifconfig and everything is right, and my network connection is fine, I can talk with the IP numbers, but not with names, and all the hosts are in my host table? Is it because of all the entries in my routing table? Is it searching each one of these machines trying to resolve the name or what? Any info would be deeply appreciated. This machine services several printers, and as of now they are no longer printing, and I can't figure this out. Steve Berger sberger@nmsu.edu
mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) (06/19/91)
>What is going on? The ifconfig and everything is right, and my >network connection is fine, I can talk with the IP numbers, but not >with names, and all the hosts are in my host table? Sounds like you have a misconfigured name service on that machine. If you are expecting your machine to do hostname lookup from /etc/hosts, make sure that your /etc/svc.conf file has a line like the following: hosts=local If you want to use an external name server, a line like this would be better: hosts=bind,local In that case, you should make sure that your /etc/resolv.conf file points at legitimate, functional name servers - if it doesn't, then you will experience hangs while your resolver waits for its name service to time out - it sounds to me like that's what's happening to you now. _MelloN_