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From: Patrick McConnell <patrick@patrick.interlog.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Connecting to local host (not localhost, though) Date: 11 Jul 1997 20:59:46 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5q66s3$i3o@news.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: patrick.interlog.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970516; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE] Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!globalcenter1!news.primenet.com!nntp01.primenet.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!ais.net!News1.Toronto.iSTAR.net!news.istar.net!news2.interlog.com!news.interlog.com!patrick.interlog.com!patrick Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44284 Hi, I use FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE and a dial-up Internet connection. When the machine is not connected, I can connect to the host using its hostname, which is "patrick". But when I dial in, it won't let me. It acts as if the host is down. Everything else is fine, Internet hosts, hosts on the local network, and localhost. If I ping patrick, the ping header comes up, but it shows 100% packet loss. I have a guess as to what's wrong, but no idea how to solve the problem. In rc.conf, the default gateway is specified as my ISP's gateway. But if I do "route get patrick" while dialed in, the gateway line shows something different. It seems that I am assigned a different gateway every time I dial in. Whether or not this is the problem, does anyone know of a way to fix it? Thanks, Patrick -- Patrick McConnell (patrick@interlog.com) Finger info: http://www.interlog.com/~patrick/finger "640k ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, 1981