Subject: Re: MacOS -> NetBSD on null modem?
To: Andy Finnell <andyf@vei.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/12/1999 06:19:50
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Andy Finnell wrote:

> Ken Nakata wrote:

> > > Name server add.: 10.0.0.0
> > [...]
> > > liltike.net is my NetBSD machine, which is assigned the fake IP
> > > 10.0.0.0.
> > 
> > This is not correct.  10.0.0.0 is the network address, and you cannot
> > assign it to a host.  Give your NetBSD box something like 10.0.0.1
> > instead.
> 
> Well, I still get the same result;  It just takes longer for it to
> happen.  MacOS still says that that the host isn't responding.

Do you have a nameserver running on the NetBSD box? If not, use the ip
addr's that your ISP supplies.