Problems with dual-homed FC2 box

[Robert Locke]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:34, Andrew Dietz wrote:
<snip>
> When I issue the route command, I get:
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination   Gateway Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0   *        255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 192.168.0.0   *        255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
> 
> ...then it hangs for up to 30 seconds before it returns the last
> line, the default route:
> 
> default     192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0    UG    0      0        0 eth0
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Probably because it is doing a reverse DNS Lookup, trying to come up
with a name for your default gateway at 192.168.0.1....

Three solutions:
1) Start using "route -n" where the n means "numeric" or "no name"
2) Add an entry in your /etc/hosts regarding 192.168.0.1
3) Add a PTR record to the DNS server handling 192.168.0.1

Of course that last one might be out of your control....

--Rob