I had this thing working as of yesterday, I rebooted and it's doing the very same thing again. Only this time there is no mistake with a comma versus a period. Does anyone recognize this?? root@iam etc]# rc.d/init.d/network start Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument What is really strange is this... [root@iam etc]# more hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost iam 70.145.234.214 iam.wayward4now.net wayward4now.net Notice the alias iam on the localhost line? WTF? Since when would anything get added other than localhost.localdomain and localhost? I've edited that sucker out a dozen times, and it pops back up. This is pretty crucial as I have people from www.prisontalk.com "coming in to visit today" after church... at least I don't have to dress or put on clothes. Up again until 5AM, this is really old. Ubuntu is starting to look good to me. Now I'm back in DHCP mode with the DSL modem and still get Error while performing operation. Host lookup failed: smtp.googlemail.com: Temporary failure in name resolution It's slow as hell, too. Something somewhere having something to do with named I'm guessing. Was that BIND issue resolved?? ls this helpful? From messages: note: I'm in DHCP mode and STILL getting errors resolving! Sep 24 09:06:51 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument <----- that's the DSL modem, Sep 24 09:23:56 iam last message repeated 3 times Sep 24 09:24:04 iam last message repeated 2 times Sep 24 09:37:34 iam named[1644]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'oasc0400 8.247realmedia.com/AAAA/IN': 192.168.1.254#53 Sep 24 09:37:45 iam named[1644]: lame server resolving 'oasc04a.247realmedia.com ' (in 'oasc04a.247realmedia.com'?): 64.191.219.251#53 Sep 24 09:37:45 iam named[1644]: lame server resolving 'oasc04a.247realmedia.com ' (in 'oasc04a.247realmedia.com'?): 64.58.81.251#53 Sep 24 09:37:57 iam named[1644]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'oasc04a. 247realmedia.com/AAAA/IN': 192.168.1.254#53 Sep 24 09:41:00 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument Sep 24 09:41:07 iam last message repeated 2 times Sep 24 09:43:14 iam named[1644]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving '97.1.168 .192.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 192.168.1.254#53 Sep 24 09:58:04 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument Sep 24 09:58:10 iam last message repeated 2 times Sep 24 10:05:50 iam ntpd[1919]: can't open /var/lib/ntp/drift.TEMP: Permission denied Sep 24 10:15:10 iam ntpd[1919]: sendto(192.168.1.254): Invalid argument Sep 24 10:32:15 iam last message repeated 3 times when I type route is stalls a bit then I get this: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 in DHCP mode. God, I need my static IP back! I've never has this array of problems before. I don't recognize 169.254.0.0 either. If anyone thinks they really know, and has free LD call me at 336-333-9311. I'm supposed to be getting up with newsweek, as they might do an article on OAR (fringe uses of computing!!) and this looks REALLY bad. Please God, no more commas. I'm begging here. <chuckles> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
