Re: More network oddness

[David Walter]

Peter McAlpine <pmcalpin@uoguelph.ca> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This is the third time I've tried using the hurd, and I've had the
> same trouble each time. What happens to me is the same thing (as far
> as I can tell) that happened to "Matt" (jediknight@xwing.org) (in the
> help-hurd archives, Aug 6, 2001, Title "Network Oddness").
>
> I've made it through the initial installation
> (i.e. ./native-install*2). Now I'm trying to set up pfinet (using
> hurd-install-guide.html as my reference). I get the same problemss
> jediknight got... ping sometimes hangs, sometimes gives results.
>
> What I figured out is that it's the DNS that was really slow. Once I
> had the ip of my target, no problem. So I changed sources.list so that
> it had the ips of alpha.gnu.org and whatever.debian.org instead of the
> domain names. I was even able to "apt-get nvi" to make my life easier.

You didn't mention if you did any other configuration things...

The default installation  doesn't change /etc/resolv.conf  to point to
your local DNS servers, have you updated them yourself?

If you are using linux the same values should work, ie. you can copy
your linux resolv.conf to your Hurd /etc that should work.

I  don't believe that the   installation guide mentions this, just  in
case that helps.


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