Routing Problem

[Ric Tibbetts <ric chadera net>]

I have a strange situation with a new server, that I'm hoping is fairly
simple to resolve.
I just took down my old one, and put this in and it has a couple of
problems:

1) Delayed login times. This is affecting my E-Mail delivery among other
things (may be related to item #2 below). If I telnet to the box, it
hangs on  

[root@darkstar /root]# telnet server.mydomain.net
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to server.mydomain.net.
Escape character is '^]'.

And it hangs there for 10-30 seconds or so. Then it finally gives a
login prompt, and all is well after that.


2) The server is having trouble seeing the rest of the internal network.

I'm running it with 2 NICs, and firewalling. If I telnet to the server
from (say) box1, then while on the server (in that window), I try to
ping the local host (box1), it cannot, it returns the following:

serial1-0-0.gw1.sea4.alter.net (157.130.176.61): Destination Host
Unreachable
(I have no idea that that machine is, presumably a router on my ISPs
network(?).

Which indicates (to me) that it's trying to resolve the route via the
external web, rather than coming back through the interal nic. So how do
I get it to route "external" traffic through one NIC, and internal
through the other?


The old server (with an identical setup) did this correctly, and I don't
remember doing anything special to it.
Can someone shed a little light on this?

Thank you!!!

	A very frustrated

		Ric