Your default route may be munged.
Verify that you DO have a default route defined (i.e.. the DSL modem).
Matt Soffen
Web Intranet Developer
http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Lemons III [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 4:43 PM
> To: qmail list
> Subject: RE: network connection dies randomly?
>
> >I installed and configured QMail on Friday of last week. It passed all
> the
> <snip>
>
> Another detail that may help... When the connection appears hung,
> netstat -r
> hangs before it reports the default route. I can't even kill it. Is the
> routing table getting hosed? If so, how? Also, pump sometimes brings it
> back to life, but usually just hangs and can't be killed.
>