Hello,

I hope I can explain this clearly enough. I wrote a week or so ago
about my recently installed Linux being slow at booting up and not
connecting to the internet. For the most part, I've worked out the
slow bootup; I disabled sendmail and added a line to the hosts file,
and this sped things up a lot. But I've still got a roadblock during
bootup when it comes to the part where it says:
"ntpd opening firewall for input from clock2.redhat.com port 123"
.....it then hangs for a couple minutes and finally says,
"port 123 iptables v1.2.8 host/network not found /FAILED/."
and then continues to bootup. However, once booted up, it apparently
has no internet connection; I open up the Mozilla browser, and when I
try to go to any website, it just hangs there for a couple minutes and
finally gives me a 'host not found' type error message. I'm connected
to the internet via a Charter Pipeline cable modem, and the connection
works just fine when I boot up with my Windows XP partition. I took
my computer back up to the computer club at school, and it works fine
even with my Linus when hooked up there on the schools internet
connection, however, it's not back here.

I ran ifconfig like they told me at school, and the 'inet addr:' line
they said to look for that shows whether or not I'm connected to the
internet is definitely there. Here's what my ifconfig file shows:

etho Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
inet addr:24.247.115.27 Bcast:255.255.255.255
Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
METRIC:1
RX packets:57425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4194222 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:33799 (33.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 2994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2490032 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:2490032 (2.3 Mb)

I was told the second line that starts inet addr: is the one that
shows whether or not you are connected. They told me that if I was
connected, then that stuff would be there. So, the question is why is
that stuff there but I can't seem to connect to web pages?

I feel like I'm slowly but surely getting there. I hope someone can
help me get past this last hurdle. Thanks!

Frank

Phrank <> wrote:
> Here's what my ifconfig file shows:
>
> etho Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
> inet addr:24.247.115.27 Bcast:255.255.255.255
> Mask:255.255.252.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
> METRIC:1
> RX packets:57425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:4194222 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:33799 (33.0 Kb)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
....
> I was told the second line that starts inet addr: is the one that
> shows whether or not you are connected. They told me that if I was
> connected, then that stuff would be there. So, the question is why is
> that stuff there but I can't seem to connect to web pages?

I'm no internet guru, but my first thoughts would be:

(1) You seem to be sending and receiving packets OK (no errors)
so presumably you are connected to something.

(2) You should have your ISP's IP address, say 123.456.7.89
What happens if you try "ping 123.456.7.89"?

(3) Is the IP address above the same as the one you get under Windows?

(4) You may have to enter the correct name-servers (as given by your ISP)
in /etc/resolv.conf .

(5) I would make sure I was connected to the internet
before worrying about Mozilla,
but when you do get to it you may need to check the settings
in Edit=>Preferences=>Advanced=>Proxies .
You probably need to "Connect directly to internet"
while you were probably using proxies in school.

(6) If you want further advice, you should post the output of "route".

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

On Fri, 07 May 2004 12:38:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy
<tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

>Phrank <> wrote:
>> Here's what my ifconfig file shows:
>>
>> etho Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
>> inet addr:24.247.115.27 Bcast:255.255.255.255
>> Mask:255.255.252.0
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
>> METRIC:1
>> RX packets:57425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>> RX bytes:4194222 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:33799 (33.0 Kb)
>> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
>...
>> I was told the second line that starts inet addr: is the one that
>> shows whether or not you are connected. They told me that if I was
>> connected, then that stuff would be there. So, the question is why is
>> that stuff there but I can't seem to connect to web pages?
>
>I'm no internet guru, but my first thoughts would be:
>
>(1) You seem to be sending and receiving packets OK (no errors)
>so presumably you are connected to something.
>
>(2) You should have your ISP's IP address, say 123.456.7.89
>What happens if you try "ping 123.456.7.89"?
>
>(3) Is the IP address above the same as the one you get under Windows?
>
>(4) You may have to enter the correct name-servers (as given by your ISP)
>in /etc/resolv.conf .
>
>(5) I would make sure I was connected to the internet
>before worrying about Mozilla,
>but when you do get to it you may need to check the settings
>in Edit=>Preferences=>Advanced=>Proxies .
>You probably need to "Connect directly to internet"
>while you were probably using proxies in school.
>
>(6) If you want further advice, you should post the output of "route".

Hi Tim,

Thanks for responding. Here is what I've found out in response to
your thoughts:

1) I too believe I'm connected, but just can't seem to get the system
to let me through the barrier...whatever that barrier may be.

2&3) My IP address for Windows is the same as for Linux as shown above
(inet addr:24.247.115.27), and when I ping that, I get packets going
out, no loss. Doesn't seem to be a problem. (sorry, I didn't copy
and print out exactly what was transpiring).

4) I called Charter Pipeline regarding the name-servers, and tech
support told me that they don't use a static address, and the IP is
automatically retrieved from the system.

5) My Mozilla is already set on 'Direct connection to the internet'

6) Here's the output from 'route' (I've had to split the table here
because of space constraints):

Kernel IP routing table
DESTINATION GATEWAY GENMASK
24.247.112.0 * 255.255.252.0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0
default 24.247.112.1 0.0.0.0

(continuation of table)
FLAGS METRIC REF USE IFACE
U 0 0 0 eth0
U 0 0 0 eth0
U 0 0 0 lo
UG 0 0 0 eth0

Is there anything else I can do to check to see if I'm connected to
the internet? It's simply strange that it woud work fine at the
school but not here at home (where I really need it to work!) Thanks
for the help Tim!

Frank

On 5/7/2004 1:10 PM, I believe that Phrank wrote:

> On Fri, 07 May 2004 12:38:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy
> <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>
>>Phrank <> wrote:
>>
>>>Here's what my ifconfig file shows:
>>>
>>>etho Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
>>>inet addr:24.247.115.27 Bcast:255.255.255.255
>>>Mask:255.255.252.0
>>>UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
>>>METRIC:1
>>>RX packets:57425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>RX bytes:4194222 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:33799 (33.0 Kb)
>>>Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
>>
>>...
>>
>>>I was told the second line that starts inet addr: is the one that
>>>shows whether or not you are connected. They told me that if I was
>>>connected, then that stuff would be there. So, the question is why is
>>>that stuff there but I can't seem to connect to web pages?
>>
>>I'm no internet guru, but my first thoughts would be:
>>
>>(1) You seem to be sending and receiving packets OK (no errors)
>>so presumably you are connected to something.
>>
>>(2) You should have your ISP's IP address, say 123.456.7.89
>>What happens if you try "ping 123.456.7.89"?
>>
>>(3) Is the IP address above the same as the one you get under Windows?
>>
>>(4) You may have to enter the correct name-servers (as given by your ISP)
>>in /etc/resolv.conf .
>>
>>(5) I would make sure I was connected to the internet
>>before worrying about Mozilla,
>>but when you do get to it you may need to check the settings
>>in Edit=>Preferences=>Advanced=>Proxies .
>>You probably need to "Connect directly to internet"
>>while you were probably using proxies in school.
>>
>>(6) If you want further advice, you should post the output of "route".
>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for responding. Here is what I've found out in response to
> your thoughts:
>
> 1) I too believe I'm connected, but just can't seem to get the system
> to let me through the barrier...whatever that barrier may be.
>
> 2&3) My IP address for Windows is the same as for Linux as shown above
> (inet addr:24.247.115.27), and when I ping that, I get packets going
> out, no loss. Doesn't seem to be a problem. (sorry, I didn't copy
> and print out exactly what was transpiring).
>

They don't use nameservers with a static IP address?
You sure?

And when you ping 24.247.115.27, you're getting a response from
yourself. Try pinging the gateway, 24.247.115.1

I suspect that having nothing entered to resolve domain names in
/etc/resolv.conf is your problem. pinging an IP address on the Internet
will test that.

What is the output from 'cat /etc/resolv.conf'?

HTH,
Tim

Phrank <> wrote in message news:<f0tl90d487s2hnp2hs7i9fk5rcl6bq6cq3@4ax.com>. ..
> Hello,
>
> I hope I can explain this clearly enough. I wrote a week or so ago
> about my recently installed Linux being slow at booting up and not
> connecting to the internet. For the most part, I've worked out the
> slow bootup; I disabled sendmail and added a line to the hosts file,
> and this sped things up a lot. But I've still got a roadblock during
> bootup when it comes to the part where it says:
> "ntpd opening firewall for input from clock2.redhat.com port 123"
> ....it then hangs for a couple minutes and finally says,
> "port 123 iptables v1.2.8 host/network not found /FAILED/."
> and then continues to bootup. ...

ntpd is trying to connect to a n(etwork)t(ime)p(rotocol) server to get
an "accurate" time to help keep your clock accurate. The connection
fails then takes ~3 minutes to time out. For now I would forget about
this by not running ntpd till other issues are resolved. System
Settings -- Date & Time and uncheck "Enable Network Time Protocol"

> ... However, once booted up, it apparently
> has no internet connection; I open up the Mozilla browser, and when I
> try to go to any website, it just hangs there for a couple minutes and
> finally gives me a 'host not found' type error message. ...

This usually indicates a DNS problem -- ie., a problem resovling names
to IP addresses. See below.

> ... I'm connected
> to the internet via a Charter Pipeline cable modem, and the connection
> works just fine when I boot up with my Windows XP partition. ...

I was helping someone else about the same time with Charter and web
browsing problems -- think they set it aside as the fix was slow
getting there ... See below.

> ... I took
> my computer back up to the computer club at school, and it works fine
> even with my Linus when hooked up there on the schools internet
> connection, however, it's not back here.

You're acquiring a different network configuration at school on a
different network.

> I ran ifconfig like they told me at school, and the 'inet addr:' line
> they said to look for that shows whether or not I'm connected to the
> internet is definitely there. ...

This simply tells whether you acquired an IP address. It doesn't say
anything about the rest of your network configuration. See below.

> ... Here's what my ifconfig file shows:
>
> etho Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
> inet addr:24.247.115.27 Bcast:255.255.255.255
> Mask:255.255.252.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
> METRIC:1
> RX packets:57425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:4194222 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:33799 (33.0 Kb)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:2994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets: 2994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:2490032 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:2490032 (2.3 Mb)
>
> I was told the second line that starts inet addr: is the one that
> shows whether or not you are connected. They told me that if I was
> connected, then that stuff would be there. So, the question is why is
> that stuff there but I can't seem to connect to web pages?
>
> I feel like I'm slowly but surely getting there. I hope someone can
> help me get past this last hurdle. Thanks!
>
> Frank

First, you may want to talk to Charter techs lurking here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/charter

You need three pieces to set up your network connection:
-- an IP address, which you have now
-- a GW (gateway router) to provide the first link to Charter's
network
-- at least one name server (DNS) to resolve those names in browser
urls to IP addresses (other person had 4)

We need output from the following commands/files:
$ /sbin/route -n
or you can use
$ netstat -rn
These will tell us your routing table setup -- something that should
be provided by Charter (via DHCP) when you boot up. Especially the
entry marked as GW -- your gateway router.

The contents of these files:
/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network
/etc/hosts
/etc/host.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
These will tell us the rest of the story about your network
configuration.

From an XP prompt (as Admin?) the output of:
> ipconfig /all

For now I'm assuming you have not futz'd with the iptables rules or
Lokkit settings. Have to pick somewhere to keep the output down to
managable size ;-)

As a general rule, someone new to Linux should use the gui tools to
set up the networking configuration because of the number and varied
location of these files. And different distros use different
files/locations, so ...

Also, get yourself the RH manuals if you don't have them already. The
RH9 ones will get you going with Fedora Core.
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/
Especially the Reference Guide and Customization Guide for networking
stuff -- that's an official term, "stuff" ;-)

For testing purposes it would be good to have other browser, eyeball
tests:
ftp://152.2.210.109/ ibiblio ftp site
http://216.92.28.162/ Inside OE site
See if results are same with Moz and Konqueror as a double check.

Something never resolved with other person's problem was the question
of whether Charter has trouble with dual boot setups (with no router)
since the dhcp client-id is different in XP than in Linux. It is
possible to make a Linux client send the same id, but not sure if it's
necessary. Sometimes (always?) is with Verizon.

BTW, you have a rather incomplete and very strange dns ptr record:
*Lookup 24.247.115.27 (24.247.115.27.kzo.mi.chartermi.net) in 21+11
Zones
*AS: [NO_ROUTE]
*Net 24/8 APNIC-AP ? Milton, New South Wales

I assume you're in Kalamazoo and not near New South Wales. Looks like
Charter's upgrade rollout is not very clean or someone's asleep ;-(

hth,
prg
email above disabled

P Gentry wrote:
> Phrank <> wrote in message
>> "ntpd opening firewall for input from clock2.redhat.com port 123"
>> ....it then hangs for a couple minutes and finally says,
>> "port 123 iptables v1.2.8 host/network not found /FAILED/."
>> and then continues to bootup. ...
>
> ntpd is trying to connect to a n(etwork)t(ime)p(rotocol) server to get
> an "accurate" time to help keep your clock accurate.

No, the ntpd startup script is trying to open a hole in the firewall for
the NTP server clock2.redhat.com and failing because it can't resolve
the hostname. Ntpd errors would be logged in the system log, they don't
show up in the console.

--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi

Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka@iki.fi> wrote in message news:<c7h65d$ofo$1@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi>...
> P Gentry wrote:
> > Phrank <> wrote in message
> >> "ntpd opening firewall for input from clock2.redhat.com port 123"
> >> ....it then hangs for a couple minutes and finally says,
> >> "port 123 iptables v1.2.8 host/network not found /FAILED/."
> >> and then continues to bootup. ...
> >
> > ntpd is trying to connect to a n(etwork)t(ime)p(rotocol) server to get
> > an "accurate" time to help keep your clock accurate.
>
> No, the ntpd startup script is trying to open a hole in the firewall for
> the NTP server clock2.redhat.com ...

rather obvious from OP's post, wouldn't you say? why else would the
script try to open such a hole?

> ... and failing because it can't resolve the hostname. ...

think that's what I said, isn't it?

> ...Ntpd errors would be logged in the system log, they don't
> show up in the console.

they sure show up on my console since that's where I send the log
messages at startup -- can't speak for your setup

besides, who asked _any_ question about _where_ they show up?

questions I was trying to answer were ,"Why do they show up? What do
the mean?"

On 7 May 2004 11:02:13 -0700, rdgentry1@cablelynx.com (P Gentry)
wrote:

>Phrank <> wrote in message news:<f0tl90d487s2hnp2hs7i9fk5rcl6bq6cq3@4ax.com>. ..
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope I can explain this clearly enough. I wrote a week or so ago
>> about my recently installed Linux being slow at booting up and not
>> connecting to the internet. For the most part, I've worked out the
>> slow bootup; I disabled sendmail and added a line to the hosts file,
>> and this sped things up a lot. But I've still got a roadblock during
>> bootup when it comes to the part where it says:
>> "ntpd opening firewall for input from clock2.redhat.com port 123"
>> ....it then hangs for a couple minutes and finally says,
>> "port 123 iptables v1.2.8 host/network not found /FAILED/."
>> and then continues to bootup. ...
>
>ntpd is trying to connect to a n(etwork)t(ime)p(rotocol) server to get
>an "accurate" time to help keep your clock accurate. The connection
>fails then takes ~3 minutes to time out. For now I would forget about
>this by not running ntpd till other issues are resolved. System
>Settings -- Date & Time and uncheck "Enable Network Time Protocol"
>
>> ... However, once booted up, it apparently
>> has no internet connection; I open up the Mozilla browser, and when I
>> try to go to any website, it just hangs there for a couple minutes and
>> finally gives me a 'host not found' type error message. ...
>
>This usually indicates a DNS problem -- ie., a problem resovling names
>to IP addresses. See below.
>
>> ... I'm connected
>> to the internet via a Charter Pipeline cable modem, and the connection
>> works just fine when I boot up with my Windows XP partition. ...
>
>I was helping someone else about the same time with Charter and web
>browsing problems -- think they set it aside as the fix was slow
>getting there ... See below.
>
>> ... I took
>> my computer back up to the computer club at school, and it works fine
>> even with my Linus when hooked up there on the schools internet
>> connection, however, it's not back here.
>
>You're acquiring a different network configuration at school on a
>different network.
>
>> I ran ifconfig like they told me at school, and the 'inet addr:' line
>> they said to look for that shows whether or not I'm connected to the
>> internet is definitely there. ...
>
>This simply tells whether you acquired an IP address. It doesn't say
>anything about the rest of your network configuration. See below.
>
>> ... Here's what my ifconfig file shows:
>>
>> etho Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
>> inet addr:24.247.115.27 Bcast:255.255.255.255
>> Mask:255.255.252.0
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
>> METRIC:1
>> RX packets:57425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>> RX bytes:4194222 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:33799 (33.0 Kb)
>> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
>>
>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
>> RX packets:2994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets: 2994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>> RX bytes:2490032 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:2490032 (2.3 Mb)
>>
>> I was told the second line that starts inet addr: is the one that
>> shows whether or not you are connected. They told me that if I was
>> connected, then that stuff would be there. So, the question is why is
>> that stuff there but I can't seem to connect to web pages?
>>
>> I feel like I'm slowly but surely getting there. I hope someone can
>> help me get past this last hurdle. Thanks!
>>
>> Frank
>
>First, you may want to talk to Charter techs lurking here:
>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/charter
>
>You need three pieces to set up your network connection:
>-- an IP address, which you have now
>-- a GW (gateway router) to provide the first link to Charter's
>network
>-- at least one name server (DNS) to resolve those names in browser
>urls to IP addresses (other person had 4)
>
>We need output from the following commands/files:
>$ /sbin/route -n
>or you can use
>$ netstat -rn
>These will tell us your routing table setup -- something that should
>be provided by Charter (via DHCP) when you boot up. Especially the
>entry marked as GW -- your gateway router.
>
>The contents of these files:
>/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases
>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf
>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network
>/etc/hosts
>/etc/host.conf
>/etc/nsswitch.conf
>These will tell us the rest of the story about your network
>configuration.
>
>From an XP prompt (as Admin?) the output of:
>> ipconfig /all
>
>For now I'm assuming you have not futz'd with the iptables rules or
>Lokkit settings. Have to pick somewhere to keep the output down to
>managable size ;-)
>
>As a general rule, someone new to Linux should use the gui tools to
>set up the networking configuration because of the number and varied
>location of these files. And different distros use different
>files/locations, so ...
>
>Also, get yourself the RH manuals if you don't have them already. The
>RH9 ones will get you going with Fedora Core.
>https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/
>Especially the Reference Guide and Customization Guide for networking
>stuff -- that's an official term, "stuff" ;-)
>
>For testing purposes it would be good to have other browser, eyeball
>tests:
>ftp://152.2.210.109/ ibiblio ftp site
>http://216.92.28.162/ Inside OE site
>See if results are same with Moz and Konqueror as a double check.
>
>Something never resolved with other person's problem was the question
>of whether Charter has trouble with dual boot setups (with no router)
>since the dhcp client-id is different in XP than in Linux. It is
>possible to make a Linux client send the same id, but not sure if it's
>necessary. Sometimes (always?) is with Verizon.
>
>BTW, you have a rather incomplete and very strange dns ptr record:
>*Lookup 24.247.115.27 (24.247.115.27.kzo.mi.chartermi.net) in 21+11
>Zones
> *AS: [NO_ROUTE]
>*Net 24/8 APNIC-AP ? Milton, New South Wales
>
>I assume you're in Kalamazoo and not near New South Wales. Looks like
>Charter's upgrade rollout is not very clean or someone's asleep ;-(
>
>hth,
>prg
>email above disabled

Hello again,

Thank you so much for such an indepth reply. Before I post the
contents of the files you asked for, I have another bit of information
that will hopefully be helpful. As I've said, I'm unable to connect
to any site. However, that's just by typing in, say, www.google.com
(or any other site). But when I type in the IP address of a site
(like the ones you show above for instance), then I connect to those
sites. Ok, that said, here's the contencts of those files:

1) route (I've split the table here because of space constraints):

Kernel IP routing table
DESTINATION GATEWAY GENMASK
24.247.112.0 * 255.255.252.0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0
default 24.247.112.1 0.0.0.0

(continuation of table)
FLAGS METRIC REF USE IFACE
U 0 0 0 eth0
U 0 0 0 eth0
U 0 0 0 lo
UG 0 0 0 eth0


2) dhclient-eth0.leases
lease {
interface "eth0";
fixed-address 24.247.115.27;
option subnet-mask 255.255.252.0;
option dhcp-lease-time 172800;
option routers 24.247.112.1;
option dhcp-message-type 5;
option dhcp-server-identifier 24.247.15.39;
option domain-name-servers 24.247.15.53,24.247.24.53;
option broadcast-address 255.255.255.255;
option host-name "phrankndonna";
option domain-name "gha.chartermi.net";
renew 1 2004/5/10 08:19:20;
rebind 2 2004/5/11 08:18:47;
expire 2 2004/5/11 14:18:47;
}
lease {
interface "eth0";
fixed-address 24.247.115.27;
option subnet-mask 255.255.252.0;
option routers 24.247.112.1;
option dhcp-lease-time 172800;
option dhcp-message-type 5;
option domain-name-servers 24.247.15.53,24.247.24.53;
option dhcp-server-identifier 24.247.15.39;
option broadcast-address 255.255.255.255;
option host-name "phrankndonna";
option domain-name "gha.chartermi.net";
renew 1 2004/5/10 11:32:27;
rebind 2 2004/5/11 08:52:53;
expire 2 2004/5/11 14:52:53;
}

3) /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search localdomain
nameserver 141.218.23.12

4) /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
# Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:0A:E6:94:E8:29
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no

5) /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.2 phrankndonna

6) /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

7) /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.2 phrankndonna

8) /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind

9) /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files
netgroup: files
publickey: nisplus
automount: files
aliases: files nisplus

I feel like I've very close to getting this fixed, and I GREATLY
appreciate all of your time and trouble!!

Frank

On Sun, 09 May 2004 11:20:16 -0400, wrote:
<snip>
>>> and this sped things up a lot. But I've still got a roadblock during
>>> bootup when it comes to the part where it says:
>>> "ntpd opening firewall for input from clock2.redhat.com port 123"
>>> ....it then hangs for a couple minutes and finally says,
>>> "port 123 iptables v1.2.8 host/network not found /FAILED/."
>>> and then continues to bootup. ...
<snip>

In addition to whatever other problems you've resolved:

As far as I can tell, Red Hat no longer supports NTP time servers
at clock.redhat.com or clock2.redhat.com. At least I haven't been
able to get a response from either for quite a few months. You
can use 'rdate -p <servername>' to check for a response from
NTP servers.

Charles Sullivan writes:
> As far as I can tell, Red Hat no longer supports NTP time servers at
> clock.redhat.com or clock2.redhat.com.

Use pool.ntp.org or your ISP's time servers (which are probably also their
nameservers).
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI