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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and adding route
Date: 17 Jul 1995 11:32:28 +0200
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>|As long as you're going to re-establish the same route as before, you
>|can also ignore the error message and take it solely as a warning.
>
>Not that optimistic. No network program was warking -- not even ping
>(I get a new IP-address every time -- may be that's why?).
You've got a nameserver entry in your /etc/resolv.conf. If you're
killing the default route, the nameserver is ``network unreachable'',
so the resolver will fall back immediately to /etc/hosts. Otherwise,
every network operation will wait for the (unreachable) nameserver
connection to timeout (usually 45 seconds).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)