[Simh] Networking help with 4.3 BSD Quasijarus running on SimH microvax

[Johnny Billquist]

Uh... Now, it's been many years since I ran 4.3, but this just sounds wrong.

But either way, /etc/hosts is not authorative no matter what.

Could you please do a netstat -in, and report the result?
I would expect there is two devices. qe0 and lo0, and the address 
assigned to lo0 is what your "localhost" address should be.

Beyond that, it just looks like your name resolution is totally failing. 
Can you ping some known address without involving dns or any sort of 
name translation? Try something like ping -n 8.8.8.8 and report the 
result (the -n is important here).

I would also suggest that you learn a bit more about networking and Unix 
in general, but unfortunately I don't have any good suggestions on 
source material for this.

Oh, and I hope your router is 192.168.0.1, or else you have more 
misconfigurations in your system.

   Johnny

On 2017-11-05 00:08, Will Senn wrote:
> On 11/4/17 4:30 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
>>
>> If Quasijarus is the same as vanilla 4.3BSD, unless otherwise 
>> configured localhost is 0.0.0.1 and not 127.0.0.1.  So does "ping 
>> localhost" work?  What does "ifconfig qe0" say?  And "netstat -rn"?
>>
>> -Henry
> 
> 
> Henry,
> 
> That explains the weird /etc/hosts, 0.1 is localhost as you say. Here 
> are the results of the pings, ifconfig, and netstat - it looks odd, but 
> I'm not that knowledgeable about how it ought to look. My comments are 
> inline:
> 
> The first ping just sat there until I killed it:
> 
> # ping localhost
> ^C
> 
> Then I tried pinging a set number of times:
> 
> # ping -c 5 localhost
> PING 5: 0 data bytes
> ^C----5 PING Statistics----
> 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> Then I tried the ip you suggested:
> 
> # ping 0.0.0.1
> PING 0.0.0.1: 56 data bytes
> ^C
> ----0.0.0.1 PING Statistics----
> 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> Then the address from the hosts file:
> 
> # ping 0.1
> PING 0.1: 56 data bytes
> ^C
> ----0.1 PING Statistics----
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> The ifconfig result looks promising:
> 
> # ifconfig qe0
> qe0: flags=43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING>
>          inet 192.168.0.132 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> 
> The 192.168 line in the netstat results is weird to me...:
> 
> # netstat -rn
> Routing tables
> Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use Interface
> default          192.168.0.1        UG          0       15  qe0
> 192.168          192.168.0.132      U           1       24  qe0
> 
> Does this shed any light on my problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Will
> 
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