[lug] network settings

[KRITZBERG DAVID OWEN]

I really want to thank people on this list for getting me started on 
this problem. I'm pretty inexperienced with Linux. I used what I read and
may have narrowed the problem but I haven't solved it. I'm hoping someone
can help me again. I have Linux Mandrake 7.1 installed pretty
successfully except that I can't get on the internet. I looked at
some settings:

[root at kritzberg /root]# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination	Gateway		Genmask		Flags	MSS Window  irtt
Iface
128.138.146.175 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0
eth0
128.138.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0
eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0
lo
0.0.0.0         128.138.146.1   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0
eth0

[root at kritzberg /root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain colorado.edu
search colorado.edu
nameserver 128.138.240.1
nameserver 128.138.130.30
nameserver 128.138.129.76

I can ping colorado.edu but it really just pings 128.138.146.175--the
IP I have taken for the linux box. I have used this IP successfully
before on a Win98 machine.

It doesn't make a difference (given my current settings) whether or
not the  gateway 128.138.146.1 is allowed to route IP
packets... I don't know if that provides extra information.

I can ping a machine by IP address that is not connected to my hub,
though on the same part of campus, but I can't ping it by name. For
example I can ping 128.138.146.156 but not miquelon.colorado.edu, the
same machine.

Is there a solution here, or what else should I try?

Dave

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David Owen Kritzberg (david.kritzberg-at-colorado.edu)
Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 256, Boulder CO 80309-0256
Tel: 303-492-7709 Fax: 303-492-8960