Very Computer

Just installed Solaris 8 on a Netra X1. The installation seemed fine,
but something isn't right with the networking.

Examples:

*When I do 'netstat -r', it takes about a minute for each entry to
appear

*When I connect to the machine using SSH, I have to wait at a blinking
cursor for a minute or so after supplying login/pass before I'm let
in.

Any Ideas?

/creamy

just wondering if you local dns configuration is not properly setup
this might explain the one minut wait between the operations (in fact
waiting for the request to timeout)

Quote:> Just installed Solaris 8 on a Netra X1. The installation seemed fine,
> but something isn't right with the networking.

> Examples:

> *When I do 'netstat -r', it takes about a minute for each entry to
> appear

> *When I connect to the machine using SSH, I have to wait at a blinking
> cursor for a minute or so after supplying login/pass before I'm let
> in.

> Any Ideas?

> /creamy

Quote:>Just installed Solaris 8 on a Netra X1. The installation seemed fine,
>but something isn't right with the networking.

>Examples:

>*When I do 'netstat -r', it takes about a minute for each entry to
>appear

This is probably because it's trying to resolve the internal IP
addresses to names. If you use the -n option, it will print out the IP
addresses instead, without trying to go via the nameserver.

Quote:>*When I connect to the machine using SSH, I have to wait at a blinking
>cursor for a minute or so after supplying login/pass before I'm let
>in.

Again it's probably the same problem: name resolution. Perhaps your
/etc/resolv.conf includes more than one name server, and the first one
has problems, so after a while it switches to the second, which is
working.

You could do some tests with

nslookup host server

where host = name of host (e.g., the machine that you are connecting to
with ssh) and server = IP address of name server. If nslookup comes back
straight away, then 'server' is the right address to use. It's also
possible that the name server is badly configured.

A bientot
Paul
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