On Thu, 16 Mar 1995, Brett Lymn wrote:

> One thing that would help immeasurably would be an output from
> "netstat -r".  Have you guys got a default route?  Does the other end
> of your link know how to route back to you?  Do the other machines on
> your net know how to route back to you?  Can you resolve the name
> ftp.netbsd.org?

>From the NetBSD box I can do everything. I have full access to the 
Internet, and no problems reaching any host. The default route is set 
to my router, and the standard routes for the interfaces are in place. 
(I'm not currently on the system; I haven't got news and mail working 
yet 8^( or I'd send actual netstat -nr output...)

The NetBSD box is a primary nameserver, and resolves addresses perfectly
for the system SL/IP'd in, but that system can't see beyond the SL/IP
interface (or so it seems). 

For example, from the SL/IP'd system (I'll say remote host) I can ping 
204.191.16.2 (my NetBSD Box), 204.191.16.9 (the NetBSD end of the SL/IP), 
but that's about it. I can't ping the router at 204.191.16.1 or the bridge
at 204.191.16.253. The netmasks are all set for 255.255.255.0...

> Unless you are routing between two networks you should not need the
> gateway option....

Yup... I'm trying to get dial-up Internet access through this NetBSD box 
which is connected.

I have been having other fun though...

The binaries on ftp.netbsd.org for the i386 just core-dump on me. They 
won't run at all... Argh. And compatible source code isn't available on 
ftp.netbsd.org for all of them.

I compiled archie and got it working after a bit of tinkering. I also
snooped around and found source for a few other utilities. I compiled
Less-177 with a little modification, and sz & rz with no trouble at all. 
I'm currently working on the Pine3.91 distribution... That's turning out
to be some hassle. Anyone done this yet? PICO compiles fine and appears 
to work fine as well. The other two pieces don't. (I can't remember the 
name of the first piece; c-something). c-something 8^) fails because the 
crypt function isn't found. I've tinkered some, but I'm going to see if 
the crypt that it wants is the same crypt that's in the security 
distribution. Perhaps I can add it to the makefile manually... PINE seems 
to fail due to some other missing functions, I believe for string 
comparison... This is next to tinker with...

I got the berkeley popper distribution for pop3, and it's makefiles seem 
to be incompatible with the default NetBSD make...

Basically I want this NetBSD box to be able to accept mail and offer it 
to hosts via pop3, and be a news server as well. Will I need anything 
other than c-news, a pop3 server, and the Pine distribution?

Thanks for any insight...

Steve
svetzal@interlog.com (@icom.ca soon ?)