Re: routing prob

From: Jens Hofmeier (jhofmeir_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:41:26 +0100

"David Efflandt" <efflandt@xnet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:slrnd1s96m.dle.efflandt@typhoon.xnet.com...
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:11:28 +0100, Jens Hofmeier <jhofmeir@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > this may be a newbie question, but since i'm new to linx, i'll give it a
> > try:
> > Where are the routing settings stored? Every time i restart the network
> > service with "service network restart"
> > some strange entries appear when typing "route":
> > It's a route to
> > 169.254.0.0 * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> > I don't know where this comes from, since i've never entered it.
>
> That might be the default IP range used by Windows boxes that fail to get
> a DHCP IP.
>
> > It also takes a few seconds until the last of the three entries there is
> > displayed (Dest=default), does anyone know why?
> > I'm using FC3 2.6.10
>
> Most likely DNS timeout attempting to resolve IPs that do not resolve.
> route -n is quicker and sometimes easier to interpret.

I don't think it's a DNS Problem; the entry that causes the delay is the
following:
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

or, using route -n
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
any other suggestions? Furtheron i need to know where the network service
fetches its settings from