On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 09:13 AM, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:13, NDPTAL85 wrote: >> And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: >> >> search earthlink.net >> nameserver 207.217.126.82 >> nameserver 207.217.77.81 >> nameserver 207.217.120.83 >> >> The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can >> resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it >> an >> IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but >> sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual >> IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps >> on this IP and they can use it just fine. > > I deleted the previous messages, so forgive me if you already answered > this. Can you ping the other PCs on your network? What is the output of > 'route -n'? > > Also, you might want to remove the line 'search earthlink.net'. All this > does is slow down domain resolution, unless you actually deal with > earthlink network systems on a regular basis. > > How are you connected to earthlink? Dial-up through a gateway? DSL? > Something else?
Here is my ping from 192.168.0.2 (Mandrake) to 192.168.0.5 (Mac OS X) [root@Dreadnaught root]# ping 192.168.0.5 PING 192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5) from 192.168.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=508 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=572 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=522 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=426 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=448 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=525 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=534 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=536 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=539 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=477 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=469 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=534 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=542 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=541 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=471 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=537 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=540 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=17 ttl=255 time=537 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=529 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=19 ttl=255 time=543 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=20 ttl=255 time=454 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=21 ttl=255 time=535 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=22 ttl=255 time=530 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=23 ttl=255 time=522 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=24 ttl=255 time=461 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=25 ttl=255 time=536 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=26 ttl=255 time=538 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=27 ttl=255 time=536 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=28 ttl=255 time=469 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=29 ttl=255 time=550 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=30 ttl=255 time=540 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=31 ttl=255 time=528 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=525 usec --- 192.168.0.5 ping statistics --- 33 packets transmitted, 33 packets received, 0% packet loss Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo I dialup to Earthlink thru a Netgear 4 port 56k router (model RM356). It has 4 machines connected to it of which one is the Mandrake box. The others are Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows XP. They are working fine. -------------------------------------------------------------- If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. --------------------------------------------------------------
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