Re: [TCLUG:7110] more routing weirdness

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Does traceroute choose the right interface to get to outside? Does it
say something like "Multiple interfaces"? 

Tim Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Clay Fandre wrote:
> 
> > Try traceroute to see how far the packets are going. My guess is that
> > they're never making it past the first router. If you can ping
> > everything on your local network, and nothing past the router it seems
> > to be a routing problem. Any logs on the router that you could look at?
> > How about changing the IP just for giggles?
> 
> Clay,
> 
> Thanks for the ideas. I've determined that the timing out I observed with
> 'route -e' was related to my DNS. Now that I seem to have that worked out
> (no guarantee, of course), route -e prints my routing table with no delay.
> Unfortunately, I still couldn't get past my gateway.
> 
> I changed the IP address of this machine from 10.22.6.1 to 10.22.6.2. Now
> there's a slight delay in printing 'route -e', but I now have outside
> access!
> 
> Who can explain this? Could it be related to my local DNS? Maybe it's a
> problem with the router downstairs? I'd love to hear more ideas.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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