Re: Help! - DNS seg faults, can't ping non-numeric IPs

I just tried with a PCMCIA NE2000-client LAN card, too. Exactly the
same behaviour: ok to ping a numeric IP, but a segfault pinging a
name.

This is driving me crazy now; if *ANYONE* can please suggest a course
of action, I'll give it a go.

For example, is it worth trying a reinstall of the kernel and
bootstrap package? Is it even *possible* that a small component could
have become corrupted?

Thanks,

Matt (the Desperado)

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Matt Newsome wrote (Thursday 23 August 2001 16:30 +0100):
 > Disconnect wrote (Thursday 23 August 2001 10:23 -0400):
 >  > >   DNS_1="194.168.4.100"
 >  > >   DNS_2="194.168.8.100"
 >  >              ^
 >  > Are you sure its 194?  The tcpdump stuff seems to indicate it should be
 >  > 192 (private network)...?
 > 
 > Absolutely.  They're my ISP's DNS servers (so not in my LAN), and
 > they're definitely right.
 > 
 >  > Also, grab 'strace' off the skiffclusters and try "strace ping
 >  > www.yahoo.com" - that should give more information about whats happening.  
 >  > (It will output a -lot- of information - shortly above where the SIGSEGV
 >  > is sent should be the error.)
 > 
 > Ok, though I can't say I'm any wiser looking at it myself.  If anyone
 > can decipher it for me, I'd be very grateful.  See end of message for
 > a transcript.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > --
 > Matt