Neil Moore-Smith wrote:

> I have a strange symptom occurring. When I display the routing table using
> "netstat -r" it displays routes through the eth0 and loopback interfaces
> then sits there, without displaying the default route. I have to press
> ctrl-c to get the prompt back. If I delete the default route, the table
> displays OK, but of course, I lose the route.
>
> I know I'm typing in the route add command correctly, and I can ping the
> interface used as the default route, so what's happening?
>
> Neil
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Do you have a nameserver that is working?  the -r flag tries to do lookups on
your
routes.  It will hang for a very long time if it is unable to resolve the
names.

try running

    netstat -rn

this tells netstat just to show the ip addresses.


-brennan

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