Linux-Networking Digest #822, Volume #9 Sat, 9 Jan 99 00:13:49 EST
Contents:
Re: ppp connection (Clifford Kite)
nt linux routing probs ("Joerg Landsiedel")
Re: Dial-on-demand works, now make it stop! (Choon-Cheng Chee (remove "removethis"
in my e-mail))
Name Server (Mark Robinson)
Re: weird problem - please help... (Roman Milner)
Re: tcp wrappers - help with troubleshooting? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No login promt when dialing in to Linux box (Matt Kressel)
RH 5.0 - "ifup ppp0" and ftp--can't seem to download (Hugh Lawson)
Help with Routing/Forwarding? SSH2 and vpn setup on Linux RH5.1 (Eliot Sabath-Levitt)
Re: Routing HTTP traffic on 2 networks (Brian McCauley)
Re: Rebuilt server everything OK except routing? (Brian McCauley)
DHCP to DNS (Stephen Carville)
Re: routing problem (Jan Stifter)
Re: PPP/Online with Cwix.com ISP (Patrik Israelsson)
ISDN/Red Hat 5.1 (Andrew Marcum)
Re: smbmount'ing NT share: weird time and date problems (Joachim Zobel)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (William Burrow)
Re: Leafnode - few articles (Dale Pontius)
Re: Anyone using Cable TV Montgomery cable modems? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PPP in RH 5.2 - "ifup ppp0" ??? (ppp0 netmask woes) (John Timmers)
weird problem - please help... (Roman Milner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: ppp connection
Date: 8 Jan 1999 21:47:33 -0600
logik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello, i am a fervent linux user, and i badly need help!
: I want to connect to the internet with linux with pppd-2.3, but it doesn't
: work; the ppp connection seems to be ok since i get my dynamic IP:
: /var/log/message:
: Jan 8 02:44:49 logik chat[525]: (195.114.65.18) to 212.11.30.135
: beginning....
: Jan 8 02:44:49 logik chat[525]: -- got it
: Jan 8 02:44:49 logik chat[525]: send (^M)
: Jan 8 02:44:49 logik pppd[520]: Serial connection established.
: Jan 8 02:44:50 logik pppd[520]: Using interface ppp0
: Jan 8 02:44:50 logik pppd[520]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua0
: Jan 8 02:44:52 logik pppd[520]: local IP address 212.11.30.135
: Jan 8 02:44:52 logik pppd[520]: remote IP address 195.114.65.18
: and my ppp device seems well configured too (no problems in ifconfig)
: however, i am not able to ping anyone (including the other side,
: 195.114.65.18)
Not being able to ping the IP number of the server on the other end of the
line isn't good no matter how good the ifconfig and route outputs look.
: any name resolving times out in the way that i don't receive any data from
: the modem:
: Jan 8 02:45:23 logik pppd[520]: CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
This isn't name resolving, this has to do with ppp negotiations.
CCP is Compression Control Protocol and while it's not required by ppp
it occasionally is the source of trouble with a poorly implemented ppp
at the ISP. For ppp-2.3.x you can try adding the pppd noccp option.
Many more ppp negotiation messages are found in /var/log/debug (usually)
using the pppd debug option.when the pppd debug option is present. Recommended
reading.
: 'route' does the same, and 'route -n' says (which i think is normal):
: Kernel IP routing table
: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
: Iface
: 195.114.65.18 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
: ppp0
: 198.68.0.0 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
: 0.0.0.0 195.114.65.18 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 2
: ppp0
Looks OK to me. With a host route to 195.114.65.18 it's easy to believe
that ppp communication has broken down somehow. You really should look
at the ppp negotiation messages in /var/log/debug and post if need be.
: it seems to me that everything works, but the dns servers don't respond to
: me
: My ISP tells me nothing changed on his side.
: NOTE: I can connect with no problems under Windows95
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
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From: "Joerg Landsiedel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nt linux routing probs
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:20:11 -0000
We have two networks connected by an NT Server (primary domain controller).
The routing seemed to be ok until we connected a Linux machine to our
network.
Except the Linux machine every computer in network 1 can see and interact
with any computer in network 2 and vice versa.
The linux machine can only see (ping) the computers in the same network.
Is there a difference between routing Linux to routing NT machines via an NT
Server???
We use NT4 + ServicePack 3.
Thanks for any answer or hint
Joerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Choon-Cheng Chee (remove "removethis" in my e-mail))
Subject: Re: Dial-on-demand works, now make it stop!
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:41:10 GMT
On 7 Jan 1999 13:18:19 +0100, Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>|| > 1) How do I determine what's causing the dial-out? I assumed I do it
>|| > with tcpdump, but I'm not capturing anything watching the ppp0 device,
>|| > so I must be missing something.
>||
>|| The most likely culprit is DNS. One of the internal systems is
>|| requesting a an IP address and the DNS server needs to go out for it.
>
>Tcpdump may be missing packets. For instance, DNS queries use UDP,
>not TCP. Tcpdump will not see it, if its name is an indication of what
>it does.
>
I think tcpdump's author should seriously consider changing its name.
tcpdump *can* show both TCP and UDP packets.
Choon-Cheng Chee
=========================
chee at mail-me dot com
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
=========================
* Watch my return address! Editing required !*
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Name Server
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 03:59:34 GMT
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Are there any docs on setting up and running a Primary Name Server?</html>
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From: Roman Milner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird problem - please help...
Date: 08 Jan 1999 21:58:18 -0600
Thanks for your reply. I don't use ip masqurading. I have
serveral real ip addresses.
I can't reach the certain sights from either box, on any
interface. I tried traceroute domain.com -i ppp0 and it still fails.
I can provide my routing tables or anything else that my help.
Thanks,
^Roman
>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bryan> Are you saying you can't connect with the second box to
Bryan> those sites? Is IP forwarding on? Are you using a web
Bryan> proxy (which I highly recommend as masquerading doesn't
Bryan> work too well)? Do they have the same IP subnet so that
Bryan> forwarding rules work?
Bryan> traceroute under RH 5.1 and later uses the eth0 by default.
Bryan> You have to explicitly say that you want it to use your
Bryan> ppp0 device.
Bryan> traceroute domain.com -i ppp0
Bryan> -- Bryan -- CTR Online Systems Administration
Bryan> Roman Milner wrote:
>> Hello. I've got a weird network problem that I can't figure
>> out.
>>
>> My net is basically two machines, one connected to the internet
>> via a dedicated ppp account - with a static ip address. That
>> machine also has an ethernet interface which connects it to one
>> other box that has only on interface - ethernet. My problem
>> is, I can't reach certain sights. Most sights work fine. For
>> example I can reach www.yahoo.com fine, however I can't reach
>> weather.yahoo.com. But, it gets even weirder. I *can* ping
>> weather.yahoo.com, but I can't get to it via the web nor can I
>> traceroute to it. The traceroute hangs. When I go to it via
>> netscape, netscape says, "sight contacted, transfering data..."
>> and then it hangs forever. It's not just weather.yahoo.com.
>> Another example is www.nationsbank.com. I would say it's
>> probably about one out of ten sights that I can't reach. On
>> these sights, I can telnet to port 80 and get connected fine,
>> but when I issue a get it hangs forever. Any ideas? I played
>> with routing all night to no avail, and I called my provider
>> and they are sure it's not them (though, I do doubt them as
>> they did admit than when doing a traceroute from the router it
>> hangs for them when going to weather.yahoo.com. The explained
>> this by saying that weather.yahoo.com sends a type a packet
>> back that the router doesn't support.) Any help would be
>> greatly appreciated. I'm stumped.
>>
>> ^Roman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tcp wrappers - help with troubleshooting?
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:53:37 GMT
: safe_finger is installed where the option says it is, and works from the
: command line (your sysadmin will find a finger attempt from the host I
: am troubleshooting. Please apologize for me).
: here's the actual line from hosts.deny
: ALL : ALL : (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | /usr/bin/Mail -s %d-%h root)
: &
Use spawn in there. For example something along these lines.
in.fingerd : ALL : spawn (/usr/sbin/traceroute %h | \
mail -s "Finger Trace Results" root) &
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From: Matt Kressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No login promt when dialing in to Linux box
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:43:05 GMT
wa wrote:
>
> I am another new user to linux. When dialing into the Linux box using a
> terminal program the modem does not automatically answer. Using at commands
> with Seyon the modem answers but no login prompt is displayed. I have
> searched the How-To and FAQ with no luck. Can anyone point me on the right
> track.
You need to set up the getty(s) in /etc/inittab and some other config
files to set the modem for auto answer. See the Network Administrator
Guide (NAG) at the Linux Doc Project ( http://sunsite.unc/edu/LDP ) for
details.
-Matt
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From: Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: RH 5.0 - "ifup ppp0" and ftp--can't seem to download
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 22:55:04 -0500
For some reason, when I use the offical redhat scripts at
.../network-scripts to make a ppp connection, ftp always hangs when
trying to download a file.
Has anybody else had this problem?
--
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eliot Sabath-Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh
Subject: Help with Routing/Forwarding? SSH2 and vpn setup on Linux RH5.1
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:14:37 -0800
Please I am hoping someone can help before I go insane. :-)
I have SSH2 set up between two linux boxes. One is running RH5.1, the
other RH5.2. Plain-vanilla SSH2 works just fine between them, both
ways. I've also set up everything according to the VPN-HOWTO (including
using the root account to initiate the connection and a "slave" account
on the far end to accept it using sudo as described).
My problem is that the VPN setup does not complete. When I do it by
hand (again, according to the instructions in the HOWTO, except adding
the -t flag where it was left out in the hand instructions but not in
the rc file), I'm able to get to the point where I can telnet to the
fake VPN address on the other box from either box. (The address
associated with the ppp0 connection on the other box.)
I can't telnet to the fake VPN address on the current box, though.
(That worries me, but only mildly.) And when I try to set up the
routing so I can telnet to the real intranet address on the other
system, it just hangs there. I lose any existing connections to the
other network (no surprise), and can't initiate any new ones.
I'm sure that this has something to do with packet forwarding rules on
one or the other boxes. I have a pretty restrictive firewall set up,
that defaults to denying all incoming, outgoing, and forwarding packets
except those specifically accepted. I did add lines that look like:
ipfwadm -I -a accept -W ppp0 -S 192.168.0.2 -D 192.168.0.1
ipfwadm -O -a accept -W ppp0 -S 192.168.0.1 -D 192.168.0.2
ipfwadm -F -a accept -W ppp0
to both firewalls. But of course "ppp0" doesn't exist at the time the
firewall is set up, so these have to be meaningless.
One machine does have masquerading set up correctly to its 192.168.1.x
intranet, so I know something is right at least on one end. The other
machine, however (the slave) is something of an enigma, since right now
it is standing alone and I don't know how to test whether the kernel is
doing everything it should. Both machines have static IP addresses.
Can anyone help me? I've been working on this for days and I have no
idea what to do next.
Thank you!!!
Eliot Sabath-Levitt
Los Angeles
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.infosystems.www.unix
Subject: Re: Routing HTTP traffic on 2 networks
Date: 03 Jan 1999 11:26:20 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> With two WAN connects (eth0 = slow connection, eth1 = fast connection), how
> can I get HTTP traffic on eth0 to go out on eth0 and yet have HTTP traffic
> coming in on eth1 go out via eth1? I'm running two copies of Apache, one
> listening on the slow connection and one on the fast one (different
> ports/networks).
My understanding is that with a kernel with advanced routing feature
you can control which interface a packet goes out on based on packet
source address. Without advanced routing you can't AFAIK. I played
with the advanced routing in an early 2.1.x kernel but I believe it's
changed a little between then and 2.2. I do not think it was ever
back-ported to the 2.0.x series kernels.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Rebuilt server everything OK except routing?
Date: 03 Jan 1999 11:30:34 +0000
James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just replaced an old Linux server with a new dual PII machine. I put
> RH 5.2 on it, put 2.1.129 SMP kernel on, copied the PPP and masquerading
> stuff on, Samba file & print sharing on.
Did you enable IP forwarding? There is a simple on/off switch
independant of firewalling rules. In RH it defaults to off.
Look in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward - should be "1".
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP to DNS
Date: 9 Jan 1999 04:23:30 GMT
I have DHCP working under Linux and I seem to have solved all the major
issues except for:
How do I get the information over to the DNS server? When I issue an
address to a machine I need to notify the DNS server that so-and-so is now
at such-and-such an address. IS there a way to do this withour reinventing
the wheel?
--
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
====================================================
Management: The art of hiring intelligent, skilled individuals and then
ignoring their advice.
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 17:23:37 +0100
From: Jan Stifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: routing problem
Vincent Zweije wrote:
>
>
> Your [sic] not using reserved IP addresses will give you two problems:
>
> (1) The true owners of the masqueraded addresses will not be reachable.
> This might be a real problem, as they are no doubt with the same ISP.
>
> (2) The true owners of the masqueraded addresses will be very unhappy
> with you when packets leak out unmasqueraded.
>
I agree with these 2 points. I thought about the solution to use 192.168.*
adresses but
I would have then 2 IP-Ranges on my network:
a.b.c.224 - 239 for servers (www, dns, mail, ...)
192.168.1.* (for clients)
This will cause me a lot of routing trouble and I am not sure, whether this is
possible in all the clients I have (WindowsNT, Mac, Linux, Unix, ...)
If it is possible, can you tell me how?
> ...
> Firewall rules left as an exercise to the reader. RTFM.
Firewall already works :)
> Hope this helps. Vincent.
Yes, it helped a lot. It is a long way to set up a network, and my network seems
not to be finished, since I am asking me, how I could set up the 2nd IP-range
(192.168.*). I tried it shortly, but it did not work, so I decided to take the
"worse" solution.
any help is appreciated...
jan
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From: Patrik Israelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: PPP/Online with Cwix.com ISP
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 03:40:51 +0100
"Daniel P. Fraga" wrote:
> Draco wrote:
>
> > do probably most ISPs. When I try to connect through EzPPP in Linux, I
> > can't get on. It never asks for a password or login name. I have tried
> > using the terminal window and it still will not ask for that info. I was
> > wondering if anyone knows anything I should do, or should I just get a
> > new ISP??
>
> Maybe your ISP uses PAP or CHAP authentication. Please check my
> page and see if it helps.
>
> --
> http://members.xoom.com/ilovelinux/
Also, the documentation in ezppp describes how to use PAP within ezppp. Try
that.
/ Patrik
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From: Andrew Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ISDN/Red Hat 5.1
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:40:04 GMT
I am currently connecting to the internet through a 3ComImpact IQ ISDN
modem. I am able to connect fine and I am also us ipfwadm without a
hitch. My problem is that my connection speed is Really slow. I am only
able to get 2-3k a sec on download. This is a 128k account. I set the
modem up in network config on the control panel (adding a ppp
interface). I have tried useing setserial /dev/cua1 spd_vhi, but it
does not increase the speed at all. The line speed is set to 115200 and
the modem init string is ATS60=64s80=1 (from a previous post) These also
do not affect the speed. If anyone has any help, I would greatly
appreciate it.
Thanks
Andrew Marcum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Zobel)
Subject: Re: smbmount'ing NT share: weird time and date problems
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 19:57:57 GMT
Heiko Hellweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have some strange problems, accessing an NT share with the smbfs
>package from my linux box (smbfs v 2.0.2 , libc5 based SUSE distrib.,
>kernel 2.0.33, intel hw).
>
>there seem to be no straight rules - but the "last modified" times and dates
>on files that are accessed from the linux side sometimes have the strangest
>values. look at this:
This is a problem with smbmount. I had the same problem with 3.11 or
95 boxes some time ago. The nasty thing is that times of ro files were
changed to.
I don't now how to fix the problem, I simply stopped using smbmount.
But its a known bug, searching dejanews for smbmount (or smbtar, i
think it has the same problem) in addition to maybe "file time" you
should find something.
Hth,
Joachim
"I read the news today oh boy" - The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Althoug this message has a valid From header, replies
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where user = jzobel are preferred.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 9 Jan 1999 04:05:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 08 Jan 1999 23:11:54 GMT,
Valentin Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I must say, that once I received spam from very stupid spammer, where all
>recipients was listed (instead of forged mailing list). I had old address
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and in list was addresses like
>
...
>etc.
>
>In other words, all possible combinations. Note, this my address was at least
>1 year as dead. One of conbinations included new address -
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] SO - please, don't be so silly to think that spammers
>don't detect your real address from simple [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't use nospam. Seems to work fairly well, but my email address is
spread all over the place anyway. Besides, spammers use CDs full of
dubious addresses, must be paying hundreds for them judging from some
of the spams for spamming software that I've gotten.
>nospmam in addresses bothers me much more than spammers, so I never ansver to
>such messages with nospam, I simply ignore them. There are much more
So what do I care? If I really wanted an email response, I'd take out
the ``nospam'' and allow an email reply. I'd also expect (and recently
just got) a new flood of spam mail.
>effective ways to fight against spam, one of them - NO RELAY in mailing
>hosts. Please think about.
Wow, what great advice. However, there is only ONE mailer that I can
change, my own. Think about that.
Y'know, people who use ``nospam'' are probably so happy not recieving spam,
that they couldn't be bothered to listen to your ideology anyway. ;)
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Leafnode - few articles
Date: 8 Jan 1999 16:42:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pietro Montelatici) writes:
> I've just installed Leafnode. I configured it with no limits set (no maxfetch,
> no maxcrosspost, no maxage) apart for initialfetch = 100.
>
> I run fetch -f, everything fine. I run fetch -vv, ok. I run fetch -vv again
> after 24h and it downloaded only few articles from all the subscribed groups.
> Too few.
>
Have you used a newsreader to connect to fetchmail, and try to read
some groups from it? By default, fetchmail doesn't fetch much - it's
demand-driven. Before it'll start fetching groups, you have to
demand them with a newsreader.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone using Cable TV Montgomery cable modems?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 04:34:31 GMT
I'm interested in the same thing.... if anyone can provide more information on
this, I'd be grateful (including the original author)....
It seems as if there needs to be some sort of "shim" in the networking code
on the client machine which makes IP think that the return packet came from
the PPP interface on the PC instead of from the Ethernet interface where it
actually came from...
More I do not know. But would like to.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Mulvaney) wrote:
> Is anybody out there using Cable TV Montgomery(in Rockville, Maryland)
> cable modems with Linux? I am interesting in signing up for the
> service, but I want to use Linux and not 95/98. This is a hybrid
> design, with a telephone connection for upwards traffic. I have to
> provide the modem.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> --
> Michael Mulvaney
> Man: With proper funding, I'm confident this little baby could destroy
> an area the size of New York City.
> Grampa: But I want to help people, not kill them!
> Man: Oh. Well, to be honest, the ray only has evil applications...
> -- Everybody wants to get their hands on... ``Old Money''
>
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From: John Timmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PPP in RH 5.2 - "ifup ppp0" ??? (ppp0 netmask woes)
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:48:27 -0800
logik wrote:
>
> I have the very same problems with my linux box/rh5.2: i get connected, but
> i get something like a
> CCTP timeout request after getting my dynamic IP (some time between both
> operations), and i am
> unable to ping anyone... all routing&if are correct... i get tired of this
> since i dont know where the configuration problem is...
> I don't like Redhat for this BTW (Slakware's not dead). Note that i could
> connect a few weeks ago with slackware, and since i use Win95 :(
> thanks for help
You're missing something in the /etc/resolv.conf file, ie:
domain some-isp.com
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
You should be able to figure out what to put in here if you think about
it long enough. And next time when you're asking for help, it would be
helpful is you posted a couple of error logs, and you present relevant
config files so that people can look at them to give you a proper
answer; readers of these newsgroups aren't mind-readers.
--
Regards:
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and/or binary data by-products http://users.uniserve.com/~jaunty
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From: Roman Milner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: weird problem - please help...
Date: 08 Jan 1999 10:53:29 -0600
Hello. I've got a weird network problem that I can't figure out.
My net is basically two machines, one connected to the internet via
a dedicated ppp account - with a static ip address. That machine also
has an ethernet interface which connects it to one other box that has
only on interface - ethernet.
My problem is, I can't reach certain sights. Most sights work
fine. For example I can reach www.yahoo.com fine, however I can't
reach weather.yahoo.com. But, it gets even weirder.
I *can* ping weather.yahoo.com, but I can't get to it via the web
nor can I traceroute to it. The traceroute hangs. When I go to it
via netscape, netscape says, "sight contacted, transfering data..."
and then it hangs forever.
It's not just weather.yahoo.com. Another example is
www.nationsbank.com. I would say it's probably about one out of ten
sights that I can't reach. On these sights, I can telnet to port 80
and get connected fine, but when I issue a get it hangs forever.
Any ideas? I played with routing all night to no avail, and I
called my provider and they are sure it's not them (though, I do doubt
them as they did admit than when doing a traceroute from the router it
hangs for them when going to weather.yahoo.com. The explained this by
saying that weather.yahoo.com sends a type a packet back that the
router doesn't support.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm stumped.
^Roman
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