network has gone down again, and I cannot figure out why

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun Sep 24 14:48:31 UTC 2006


I had this thing working as of yesterday, I rebooted and it's doing the
very same thing again. Only this time there is no mistake with a comma
versus a period. 

Does anyone recognize this??

root at iam etc]# rc.d/init.d/network start
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

What is really strange is this...

[root at iam etc]# more hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       iam
70.145.234.214  iam.wayward4now.net     wayward4now.net


Notice the alias iam on the localhost line? WTF? Since when would
anything get added other than localhost.localdomain and localhost?
I've edited that sucker out a dozen times, and it pops back up. 
This is pretty crucial as I have people from www.prisontalk.com "coming
in to visit today" after church... at least I don't have to dress or put
on clothes. Up again until 5AM, this is really old. Ubuntu is starting
to look good to me. 

Now I'm back in DHCP mode with the DSL modem and still get

Error while performing operation.
Host lookup failed: smtp.googlemail.com: Temporary failure in name
resolution

It's slow as hell, too. Something somewhere having something to do with
named I'm guessing. Was that BIND issue resolved?? ls this helpful? From
messages: note: I'm in DHCP mode and STILL getting errors resolving! 

Sep 24 09:06:51 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument
<----- that's the DSL modem, 
Sep 24 09:23:56 iam last message repeated 3 times
Sep 24 09:24:04 iam last message repeated 2 times
Sep 24 09:37:34 iam named[1644]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving
'oasc0400
8.247realmedia.com/AAAA/IN': 192.168.1.254#53
Sep 24 09:37:45 iam named[1644]: lame server resolving
'oasc04a.247realmedia.com
' (in 'oasc04a.247realmedia.com'?): 64.191.219.251#53
Sep 24 09:37:45 iam named[1644]: lame server resolving
'oasc04a.247realmedia.com
' (in 'oasc04a.247realmedia.com'?): 64.58.81.251#53
Sep 24 09:37:57 iam named[1644]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving
'oasc04a.
247realmedia.com/AAAA/IN': 192.168.1.254#53
Sep 24 09:41:00 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument
Sep 24 09:41:07 iam last message repeated 2 times
Sep 24 09:43:14 iam named[1644]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving
'97.1.168
.192.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 192.168.1.254#53
Sep 24 09:58:04 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument
Sep 24 09:58:10 iam last message repeated 2 times
Sep 24 10:05:50 iam ntpd[1919]: can't open /var/lib/ntp/drift.TEMP:
Permission denied
Sep 24 10:15:10 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument
Sep 24 10:32:15 iam last message repeated 3 times

when I type route is stalls a bit then I get this:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
eth0
default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
eth0

in DHCP mode. 
God, I need my static IP back! I've never has this array of problems
before. I don't recognize 169.254.0.0 either. If anyone thinks they
really know, and has free LD call me at 336-333-9311. I'm supposed to be
getting up with newsweek, as they might do an article on OAR (fringe
uses of computing!!) and this looks REALLY bad. Please God, no more
commas. I'm begging here. <chuckles>  Ric



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My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
...the Sin of Ignorance, and 
...the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.

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