All,
Using MDK 9.0 and trying to get internet connection
going through an ADSL USB modem. Using eciadsl
package and seems to work OK - to a point. Something
very screwy is happening. I can ping, but only sort
of.
For example, I seem to be ablt to ping to xx.yy.zz.aa
type addresses, though sometimes get . However, with
written addresses, it SOMETIMES works, but often not.
Here's an example:
[root@Auckland etc]# ping www.rosenet.ne.jp
ping: unknown host www.rosenet.ne.jp
[root@Auckland etc]# ping www.rosenet.ne.jp
PING catv01.rosenet.ne.jp (210.230.70.2) from
203.173.243.231 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from catv01.rosenet.ne.jp (210.230.70.2):
icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=266 ms
64 bytes from catv01.rosenet.ne.jp (210.230.70.2):
icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=260 ms
64 bytes from catv01.rosenet.ne.jp (210.230.70.2):
icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=259 ms
64 bytes from catv01.rosenet.ne.jp (210.230.70.2):
icmp_seq=4 ttl=239 time=259 ms
64 bytes from catv01.rosenet.ne.jp (210.230.70.2):
icmp_seq=5 ttl=239 time=259 ms
--- catv01.rosenet.ne.jp ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% loss, time
5056ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 259.161/260.746/266.239/2.511
ms
You can see the first two times I got unknown host,
but the third time it worked. Nothing was done
between attempts other than up arrow and enter in
bash! All three attempts within 1 minute. Why work
the third time???
Here's the contents of host.conf and resolv.conf:
[root@Auckland etc]# cat host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
[root@Auckland etc]# cat resolv.conf
# ppp temp entry
nameserver 203.109.252.42 # ppp temp entry
nameserver 203.109.252.43 # ppp temp entry
I don't know if they are right, but I do know that the
entries in resolv.conf are the DNS servers supplied by
my ISP through DHCP.
My route table looked odd at first, until I figured
that the hyphenated IP address was probably just the
name. Here are two views of the route table that show
what I mean:
[root@Auckland etc]# route -e
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
MSS Window irtt Iface
203-173-243-254 * 255.255.255.255 UH
40 0 0 ppp0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U
40 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U
40 0 0 lo
default 203-173-243-254 0.0.0.0 UG
40 0 0 ppp0
[root@Auckland etc]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
Metric Ref Use Iface
203.173.243.254 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH
0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U
0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U
0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 203.173.243.254 0.0.0.0 UG
0 0 0 ppp0
Not sure what the UH and UG flags mean. Actually,
don't know much about routing at all, so if anything
looks odd, please tell me.
Finally, here's the output from ifconfig. Not sure if
the 255.255.255.255 netmask is correct for ppp0, but
that's what set up by DHCP from the ISP. It's the
same in Windows that that seems to work OK.
[root@Auckland etc]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
00:90:CC:12:D2:64
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:32926 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38633 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:29 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:16790046 (16.0 Mb) TX
bytes:6766294 (6.4 Mb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5910 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5910 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1949959 (1.8 Mb) TX bytes:1949959
(1.8 Mb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.173.243.231
P-t-P:203.173.243.254 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST
MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:54 (54.0 b) TX bytes:54 (54.0 b)
Please help - this is driving me crazy and I can't
figure out why ping and DNS lookup SOMETIMES work. Of
course, from a web browser I can't connect to anything
at all - just get a host timeout error. I've been
forced to use W2K as my internet connection sharing
box - and I'm convinced I've already been subject to
attack from the big bad web the very first day!!!
Regards and sorry for the long post,
Ron.
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day
http://shopping.yahoo.com
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
