[LUAU] roadrunner troubles

[George Toft]

Myles Uyema wrote:
> 
> Well...after having repeatedly praised my roadrunner service this past
> meeting, I'm caught with my foot-in-mouth.  Recently I've been having
> some troubles with my roadrunner.  I have a feeling it's not me.  Of
> course, I always think it's not my fault =)
> 
> Anyway, my DHCP client is getting the following information:
> IPADDR=24.94.83.245
> NETMASK=255.255.254.0
> NETWORK=24.94.82.0
> BROADCAST=24.94.83.255
> GATEWAY=24.94.82.1
> HOSTNAME=
> DOMAIN=hawaii.rr.com
> DNS=204.210.96.1
> DHCPSIADDR=204.210.96.2
> DHCPSHADDR=08:00:3E:03:F9:DA
> DHCPSNAME=
> LEASETIME=43200
> RENEWALTIME=21600
> REBINDTIME=37800
> 
> This is taken from /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.info
> So my current IP address is 24.94.83.245 with netmask 255.255.254.0
> and a GATEWAY of 24.94.82.1
> 
> But HOLD on a moment.  With the gateway like this, I have "no route to
> 204.210.96.1 204.210.96.2 204.210.96.3 which happen to be essential
> hosts I need to be able to connect to.  The first two are the
> hawaii.rr.com DNS servers, which I need to be able to to access in order
> to resolve hosts.  204.210.96.3 is the login-server host, which I need
> to login to.
> 
> Now listen to this: I MANUALLY added a default gateway of 24.94.83.1
> and miraculously I no longer received any "network unreachable" errors.
> 

Strange.  I had the same configuration for a few weeks
and never had any problems.  I didn't even notice I was 
on a 24.whatever net for many days.  Never had a problem,
so it's probably an Oceanic problem.

Good Luck!

George
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