According to Mike: While burning my CPU.
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > > > lynx http://www.erinet.com
> > > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.erinet.com
> > > >
> > > All of these indicate that there is something wrong with your nameserver.
> >
> > I dont quite agree here, thats the remote stn saying "no such file or
> > directory" Point lynx to your own index.html in /usr/lib/lynx.cfg to solve
> > this one.
>
> I could be wrong here, but my understanding is that lynx does not look at
> the start page in /usr/lib/lynx.cfg if you specify a URL on the command
> line. It is saying it can't access http://www.erinet.com, and a possible
> reason for this is that it cannot reslove the host name.
No i rather think it is me being wrong, i tryed 'lynx http://www.erinet.com'
and got the same message, however after reading this message i tryed again
but this time it worked, which sorta proves me wrong and you right, quite
possably my nameserver did not get a return for the address the first time
which produced the same error message as above, so sorry for the confustion.
> > Its /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 in slackware.
> >
> > There are 2 possables in the file to look at, one under the
> > line/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}
> > the second near the bottom of the file;
> >
> > # Uncomment these to set up your IP routing table.
> > /sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} eth0
> > if [ ! "$GATEWAY" = "" ]; then
> > /sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
> > fi
> >
> If I'm thinking this correctly, then the second one is what is causing the
> problem. For some reason $GATEWAY is set, and it shouldn't be. Without
> access to the scripts, I don't no why $GATEWAY is set, but if you unset it
> that should fix the problem.
>
Yup.
When i used slackware i had the same problem, as i have many other
interfaces and do not require a default route via eth0.
I commented all routing out, execpt localhost, one can then add what routes
one wants in another file called from rc.local, why rc.local? becuase its
the last file called by the system startup process.
Once again sorry for the confustion.
>
> --
> Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard?
> A: You get someone who makes you an offer that you can't understand!
>
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Regards Richard.
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