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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp instead of pppd, updated FAQ?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 22:33:22 GMT
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bneel@site.gmu.edu (Brian T Neel (CS)) wrote:
>  Once ppp has connected netstat -r just hangs at the first line.
>

This is usually because, with your network routing screwed up, access to DNS
doesn't work, and netstat is trying to use the DNS to translate the host
addresses into names.  Use netstat -n -r to get the output numerically.