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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!usenet From: cstruble@quirk.com (Craig Struble) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pinging myself Date: 15 Aug 1995 20:51:25 GMT Organization: Quirk Computing and Consulting Lines: 22 Message-ID: <CSTRUBLE.95Aug15165127@quirk.com> References: <808168572snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> <40n1jo$isa@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <808515947snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: quirk.com NNTP-Posting-User: cstruble In-reply-to: Ian W Taylor's message of Tue, 15 Aug 95 19:45:47 GMT In article <808515947snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk> writes: > However even ping 158.152.59.213 doesn't start working > until the ppp link is up. I presume this is for a > request for the 'name' for that numeric IP addr. You might want to make sure there's a route in your routing table that has 158.152.59.213 routed directly to localhost. Even that might not work, but if you have a default route out to your ISP, and no route specifically for your own IP to localhost, then the PPP link will definitely have to be brought up so that your machine can figure out how to route the packet. I have found some random programs that don't like having a route from my own IP address to localhost, but those are very rare. See ya later, Craig -- Craig Struble - Grad Student, Consultant, | World's most versatile C program Student ACM Co-President, Virginia Tech | (*nix version) Email - cstruble@vt.edu | URL - http://acm.vt.edu/~cstruble/ | #include "/dev/tty"