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.







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