Subject: Re: ping: sendto: host is down
To: Christoph Leuzinger <christoph.leuzinger@westworks.ch>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/10/2000 19:32:35
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:55:32PM +0200, Christoph Leuzinger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got a strange networking problem. I'm currently running NetBSD 
> 1.4.2 on i386 with a 3c509 in it.
> 
> I did the installation via FTP from a host in the LAN and everything 
> went well. But as I now boot for the first time, I just can't get any 
> network access. (I'm using just the same network config as sysinst, 
> though.) I can't ping any host in the LAN, nor can I ping the 
> problematic host from outside.

What does 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' report ?

> 
> Another strange thing is that ping is _very_ slow. It takes about 
> half a minute or sometimes even longer 'til I get a response from 
> "ping 127.0.0.1".

May be related to the first problem, name resolution times out.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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