On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Donald D Henson
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-08-04 at 06:49 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
Is it a DNS problem? Try the local IP, i.e. ssh dhenson@192.168.x.x
This is weird. I did a ping Venus-ws (to find the current IP address) and ping reported that the current address is 24.28.193.9.
That's your ISP, probably your outside IP. Certainly not your LAN.
I'd guess you have a bad routing table, or DNS.
Try several local addresses with traceroute.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Hard to do several. Only two machines on the network. I've attached a traceroute. Shouldn't local traffic stay local? I'm not all that comfortable with routing tables and DNS, so that's a good place to find errors. -- Don Henson
Ok, look, this is not that big of a mystery. It seems that you are using your ISP's dns server (your firewall gateway/router thingie is forwarding dns requests to your isp). Since you tracerouted (and pinged) a not complete name (Venus-ws) the request was modified by your ISP's DNS server to add the default domain hrndava.rr.com and just happened to come up with something. Maybe it comes up with something always (like a honeypot). Who knows. Until you run bind on your server (inside your network) you have to put up with the flaky way that firewalls do dns forwarding. It seems you are trying to ping a Windows name (Venus-ws). From a windows machine that might work, but not from a linux machine. (You can add entries to your hosts file to make it work). You've gotten side tracked from your original problem of ssh. Just see if ssh works using numeric IPs. Then, you can go on to getting DNS working on your lan, if that is what you want to do. Opensuse makes it fairly easy to do this using yast. You then just have to set your firewall/router up to hand out the IP of your IN house dns server rather than the firewall/router device's ip. That may be more trouble than its worth to you, once you understand that linux can not ping a windows netbios name. -- ----------JSA--------- There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org