RE: Routing problem?

[Adrian Buxton <abuxton internal ozemail com au>]

Try pinning mail.lx.net from the shell and see what happens, if you don't
get a response edit /etc/resolv.conf and add the DNS server of your isp.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hargrove [mailto:shock lx net]
Sent: Friday, 19 March 1999 16:07
To: redhat-list redhat com
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown
Subject: Routing problem?


I think this may be a routing problem, but I'm not sure.  I can login to
my ISP okay and ping systems outside my network, but I can't surf or
retrieve my email.  My email program keeps complaining that mail.lx.net
(my POP mail server) isn't found.  Here's my netstat -r -n:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
Iface
209.211.34.3    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH     1524 0          0
ppp0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U      3584 0          0
lo
0.0.0.0         209.211.34.3    0.0.0.0         UG     1524 0          0
ppp0

Here's my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1  localhost localhost.localdomain
208.221.108.11  lx.net lx.net
192.168.1.1  linux linux.law.net
192.168.1.2  stephen stephen.law.net
192.168.1.3  win95 win95.law.net

Any ideas what I (1) need to be looking for and (2) what I might need to
fix.  As a side note, everything was working perfectly last night.  Then
I noticed a typo in my /etc/hosts and fixed it.  PRIOR to the fix, one
line read

192.168.1.2  stephen linux.law.net

I changed that to the /etc/hosts shown above.  After I restarted, I
couldn't surf or check my email.

Thanks guys!
--
Steve
http://www.lx.net/shock
http://www.buckowensfan.com
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I've heard the truth.
Now what I want is the answers.
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