route or ipforward problem

[John DeDourek]

Poul Moller wrote:

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> NOTE: the last line (default gw) in the "netstat -r" command takes 10 
> sec to display !!!!!!!!!

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> [root at odin root]# netstat -r
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
> Iface
> 10.0.0.0        *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 
> eth0
> 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 
> eth1
> 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo
> default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 
> eth1

That's usually a nameserver problem.  Note that in the
"default" line, 192.168.1.1 is displayed rather than a
name.

If "netstat -rn" displays without a delay, than the delay
was caused by netstats attempt to convert the 192,168.1.1
address to a name using the configured nameservers, and the
inability to do this.  Thus, this MAY OR MAY NOT be unrelated
to the problems you are haveing.