Re: RH8 router cannot connect to anything... but routing works!

2003-02-17 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
Thanks a lot for your sensible answer. Unfortunately I can't disconnect it right now because my brother is playing Dark Age of Camelot. Instead I opened two ssh sessions and typed: # tcpdump -i eth0 > /var/tmp/tcpdump I then killed tcpdump and ran: # grep -v [regex*] /var/tmp/tcpdump | g

Re: RH8 router cannot connect to anything... but routing works!

2003-02-16 Thread Raymundo Vega
check the file /etc/host.conf it usually have something like: order hosts,bind that is the order of the resolver, it means that will look for the host in the /etc/hosts files, and then the name daemon specified in /etc/resolv.conf, something like: nameserver 192.168.0.1 what you are seeing is e

Re: RH8 router cannot connect to anything... but routing works!

2003-02-16 Thread nate
Kevin Krumwiede said: > But *routing* of packets continues to work just fine! So it can't be a > problem with the routing table, right? I assume your workin with this machine from the console? if you can get on the real console(e.g. keyboard, not serial) login on 2 terminals, disconnect the inte

RH8 router cannot connect to anything... but routing works!

2003-02-16 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
I upgraded my home network router/firewall to RH8. NAT is working perfectly and hosts on the LAN can connect to the Internet. However, programs on the router itself cannot connect to anything. If I use a hostname that's not in /etc/hosts, it *instantly* says the hostname lookup failed. If the n