Red Hat Linux Network Problem

[niksalmon]

At home I have a mini NT network that I use as a test bed before installing/confihuring in the office. Just lately we have taken control of several machines running Linux and decided I ought to learn something about it. Have purchased Red Hat Linux 6.0 and loaded it as a server connected to my mini network. The software loaded fine with no problems. Has been set up with a static IP but if I ping the NT server or the two machines on the mini network, I get no replies for about 10000ms and then I get about 15 replies at one go. If I FTP a machine I eventually get a connection. Can anyone please shed any light?

 

[nluc]

What happens when you ping the linux box from the other boxes? same thing? Do you still experience the lag during telnet/ssh? Dont know about the ping part, might be the same thing, but it sounds like the ftp problem is linux trying to do a reverse lookup on the nt box. have you added the nt box to /etc/hosts? The format is <br>
IP full.hostname.com alias<br>
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like on my lan I have<br>
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192.168.1.1 grumpy.penguinpowered.com grumpy<br>
If that doesnt fix it (I think it will), trying installing bind and see if that helps. Either way it sounds like a lookup problem<br>
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--nrl

 

[jamesh]

If there was a DNS issue here then the ping would never work.<br>
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I would imagine that problem would lie with either subnetting or gateway addresses.

 

[warmongr]

If your gateway or subnet were wrong you would be receiving a "no route to host" error. I believe nlucent has a point. Is your linux machine set up as a DNS server. Have you checked both /var/named/named.hosts and /var/named/named.rev?<br>
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war...

 

[niksalmon]

Sorry have not responded to anybody, but getting married seems to have its priorites. Thanks for the tips. I downloaded the Linux Howto on DNS and now all works fine. Thanks again for your help chaps.<br>
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Nik