On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:33:13PM -0800, Dave Christiansen wrote:
> >From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> >Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:14:06 +0100
> 
> > > The problem: I can't ftp or sup out to get the packages I want to 
> >install.
> > > I get "connect: can't assign requested address".
> >
> >What host are you trying to use ?
> 
> I've tried sup.netbsd.org and other hosts, but the host isn't the problem-- 
> tcpdump sees no traffic generated on the wire using most applications.  Ping 
> works, as does traceroute (so long as I turn off name resolution-- see 
> below).
> 
> I've tried a number of hosts to make sure this wasn't an issue of routing 
> wierdness-- the only problems (possibly unrelated) I see are with my ISP's 
> nameservers.  The route taken to get there goes bad a few hops into their 
> space.  I'd suspect *THEIR* configuration (they've messed up plenty in the 
> past) but all of my other DHCP-configured machines seem fine (as was this 
> one when it ran 1.2).
> 
> >Can you give the output of 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' ?
> 
> ------------ifconfig-------------
> 
> sip0: 
> flags=fbff<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,LOOPBACK,POINTOPOINT,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,NOARP,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,LINK0,LINK1,LINK2,MULTICAST> 
> mtu 1500
> 	address: 0a:67:3b:e0:98:a8
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
> 	status: active
> 	inet 4.33.181.11 -> 4.33.183.255 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 4.33.183.255
> 	inet6 fe80::867:3bff:fee0:98a8%sip0 -> :: prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> 	inet6 ::1 -> ::1 prefixlen 128

This is strange. How does it come the ethernet interface uis point to point ?
Are you using ADSL or something like this ?

> ------------netstat------------
> 
> Routing tables
> 
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  
> Interface
> 0                  0.0.0.0            U           0        0   1100  strip1 
> =>
> default            4.33.176.1         UGS         0       59   1500  sip0
> 4.33.176/21        link#1             UC          0        0   1500  sip0
> 4.33.176.1         00:10:67:00:3c:2a  UHL         1        0   1500  sip0
> 4.33.181.11        127.0.0.1          UGHS        0        0  33228  lo0
> 127                127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33228  lo0
> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2        0  33228  lo0
> 

Looks fine. I guess 
ping -n 4.33.176.1
works ?
What does your /etc/resolv.conf looks like ? Can you ping the nameservers ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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