Re: route - why's it so slow..

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been trying to set up a DNS server using Linux Router Project.
> Got the network up, I can ping to and from it, but for some reason
> when I execute 'route' it takes a LONG time to respond. I've
> had this happen to me before on a different Linux machine but it's
> not doing that anymore. I'm sure it's a bad setting on my end but...
> Any ideas?

If you issue the route command with the "-n" option ("route -n")
does it work faster than just "route"?  If so, then you have a DNS
lookup problem.

What's your /etc/resolv.conf look like?  
Does the "nslookup" program resolve names correctly?

> Also, I think I'm missing something on gateways. I want to make it
> so that if I ping something not in the local 192.168.0.0
> (netmask 255.255.255.0) net it'll use a Win98 machine as the gateway.
> It seems like this should be possible but...
> My route looks like:

It looks like you're missing a default route.

You have Win98 setup as a gateway to the internet?
Stock Win98 doesn't do NAT/PAT/IP-Masq, AFAIK.  
Are you running some special software?  (wingate or something?)

> It's actually gonna be a local DNS server, behind a firewall that
> forwards external requests to the ISP's DNS servers then the
> internet root domains if ISP is down. Any suggestions or words-of-wisdom?

Get it working with a real DNS server on the internet before 
you try to setup your own DNS server.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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