weird WIFI route

[shimi]

2009/12/27 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I'm using this machine with wifi connection and I noticed something really
> weird..
>
> When browsing the net I saw that sometimes I didn't get the DNS resolving.
> I added DNS servers to resolv.conf, even setup my own DNS server. That
> didn't help.
>
> So I tried to ping some sites and then I saw it took quite a long time
> until it started ping even specific IP numbers. I checked "route" and then I
> saw the problem.. it shows the routes, pauses for few seconds and then shows
> the default gateway (which is an internal IP).
>
>
>
You mean saw the symptom of the problem, right?

Route pausing during display is simply because it tries to query your NS for
any entry on the table, to display it to you in a human readable manner; If
DNS is unreachable, or does not respond (for example when queried re. your
internal network IP which it is not supposed to serve), the resolver will
just wait for the timeout, and only then display the route line unresolved;

For an 'always quick' route, try route -n...

HTH,

-- Shimi
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