On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I am pretty new to networking. I have three machines. One, bigdog, is
> acting as a gateway/firewall.
>
> I am working from sage. The routing table is:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default bigdog.my.home 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
>
> When I try to ssh to bigdog, there is about a 45 second delay - but
> only when bigdog is not connected to the net.
>
> I presume that there is an attempt to do a DNS lookup. My host.conf
> file specifies:
> order hosts, bind
>
> What am I missing. I can't seem to find anything in the documentation.
Do you have "bigdog" in your /etc/hosts file on sage?
/etc/hosts on sage should look something like this
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 biogdog.my.home bigdog
{assuming bigdog's IP address is 192.168.1.1, of course}
DaZZa
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