Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
>
> A few days ago I bought a LinkSys DSL/cable modem firewall router for my
> home lan which is connected to Mediaone through a cable modem. I decided
> to modify my system's setups to use DHCP. The LinkSys router acts as a
> DHCP server and each system as it comes on-line queries the server and
> gets both an IP address (in the 192.168.1.* range) and the DNS server
> addresses for Mediaone.
>
> However, when I tried to setup my Linux system, the system hung when it
> tried to start sendmail and then hung again when it got to the Apache
> httpd daemon. I waited for the services to timeout and once I was able to
> login, I tried to start X which hung trying to get the host's IP address.
> I was temporarily able to correct all of this by editing my /etc/hosts
> file and adding the system's hostname and the IP address that the DHCP
> server had given it (specifically 192.168.1.101). Somehow this doesn't
> quite seem correct. I would expect X to get the IP address of the local
> host by some other means than either DNS or the hosts file. Perhaps all of
> these services should be using the localhost address?
It sounds to me as though you are perhaps having name resolving
problems?
Keep in mind that with Mediaone the cable modem "knows" the MAC address
of the hardware you connect to it so if you even change over to a new
NIC, you have to contact Mediaone and have them reset your modem.
--
I've found Jesus. He was behind the sofa the whole time.
Cole Tuininga
Network Admin
Code Energy, Inc
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