Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-10 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, esoR ocsirF wrote: > I just installed a potato box via the usuall minimal slink then point > apt at potato scenario. I experienced the same problem reported in this > thread, namely no name resolution but IP worked just fine. > > I finally w

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-10 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings all, I just installed a potato box via the usuall minimal slink then point apt at potato scenario. I experienced the same problem reported in this thread, namely no name resolution but IP worked just fine. I finally was able to fix it by changing /etc/init.d/network the gateway was left

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Steve Dodd
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink > installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly > saw name resolution hang. I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and > everything worked again.

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Todd Suess
Also, for what it's worth, I am running a 2.2.12-3 kernel on my dialup potato box and name resolution works fine. -Todd At 11:58 AM 10/7/1999 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink installation (which has never had the problem), reb

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly saw name resolution hang. I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and everything worked again.

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
Since name resolution works with 2.0.36, your /etc/resolv.conf is probably fine. Can you ping or traceroute -n to your DNS successfully with 2.2.12 (use the ip address you have in resolv.conf)? On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 09:23:47AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > Last month I had a problem: in sho

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Last month I had a problem: in short, I installed potato, and noticed that name resolution hung, although things worked fine if I used a numeric IP address. I've included below the plea for help that I sent last month. It describes the problem in detail. Well, in case anyone's interested, I hav