> Good Morning,
>
> I just hooked up my PM2E to a BSDI box (through a hub), configured the
> PM using Livingston ISP setup example. I am running DNS on the host (which
> is not connectedt to the net yet though). Everything seems fine since I
> see PM's LEDs as well as the hub's are all lid up as they supposed to.
>
> But I can't ping the PM from the host (I got "No answer from the host")
> or the host to the PM (I got "host is down" message.)
>
> I rebooted the BSDI and the PM but got the same result. The following
> is the output when I try to ping from the host to the PM and the outputs
> from netstat. Hope some network exports can point out what I am missing.
> (I am using the default network configuration came from BSDI.)
>
> PING ngets1.nge.com (205.252.62.7): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: wrote ngets1.nge.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: wrote ngets1.nge.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: wrote ngets1.nge.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: wrote ngets1.nge.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ^C
> --- ngets1.nge.com ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
> 127 127.0.0.1 UGRS 0 0 lo0
> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 36 lo0
> 205.252.62 link#1 UC 0 0 ef0
> 205.252.62.7 link#1 UHRL 0 30 ef0
> 205.252.62.9 0:a1:21:22:df:34 UHL 2 92 lo0
> 205.252.62.255 link#1 UHL 1 30 ef0
> 224/8 link#1 UC 0 0 ef0
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> netstat -ain
> Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
> ef0 1500 <link1> 00:a1:21:22:df:34 32 0 110 0 0
> 01:00:5e:00:00:01
> ef0 1500 205.252.62 205.252.62.9 32 0 110 0 0
> 224.0.0.1
> pe0* 1500 <link2> 00:00:00:00:00:00 0 0 0 0 0
> xir0* 1500 <link3> 00:00:00:00:00:00 0 0 0 0 0
> lo0 1536 <link4> 129 0 129 0 0
> lo0 1536 127 127.0.0.1 129 0 129 0 0
> 224.0.0.1
> sl0* 308 <link5> 0 0 0 0 0
> ppp0* 1500 <link6> 0 0 0 0 0
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> BTW, I am running BSDI 2.0.1, Buslogic-946C, 3COM509; the PM running ComOS 3.1.3
>
> Thank you very much for you help and comments
> Lin (s9ulzf@fnma.com)
>
first you need to make sure that each machine is listed in
/etc/namedb/domain.db
it should look something like this
pm1 IN A 1111.111.111.1
etc etc etc....
then is /etc/namedb/reverse.db
add something like this
1111.111.111.1 IN PTR pm1.domain.com.
be sure not to forget the period at the end
also add this to you /etc/netstart file
defroute=1111.111.111.1
and so fourth
if you need further help ill be glad to assist
scott@flinet.com
Florida Internet, Corp.
Unix System Administrator