[comp.sys.dec] Routing on a Decstation 3100

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_