Xref: news-dnh.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:281 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Path: news-dnh.mv.net!mv!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb AT netcom DOT com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Help with TCP/IP package Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:07:47 GMT Lines: 51 Sender: stanb AT netcom23 DOT netcom DOT com To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Dj-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp sturm AT ost1 DOT ping DOT de (Oliver Sturm) writes: >In you (Stan Brown) wrote : >These lines should be the source of your problem, exactly. I don't >know if wattcp (that's what I think is used with the tcp/ip-library) >handles some kind of resolv.conf- and/or host-file, but if it doesn't >or if these files don't contain the correct values to resolve the name >of the host you tried to `ping', you're desperately in need for a >nameserver. Usually the host you're directly connected to should be >able to do this. Anyway, if wattcp isn't too bad (and I never heard >anything like this), it should be able to do a `ping 205.159.77.248', >as this way there is no hostname that needs to be resolved. A ping by address is *exactly* what I am trying to do. It is what is retruning the error message. >>gateway=205.159.77.248 >>hostname=faspc4 >># domainslist="uwaterloo.ca" >> >> The problem seems to be in the _arp_resolve(0 function. Can anyone >>help me get this working ? >If this is right (I mean the function), there might be another source >for the error, as arp is usually a protocol for converting ip-adresses >into ethernet-adresses, which are six bytes instead of four for >tcp/ip. In this case I can't help you any further, as I really don't >know anything about wattcp. That is where it is failing, I can't figure out if it's trying to find teh DOS boxes Ethernet address or the remote machines. Why should it need the later ? Why can't it figure out the former ? >> >> BTW the TCPINFO.EXE program mentioned in the doc files doesn;t >>seem t be in the distribution that I got. >> >Oliver >-- > Oliver Sturm sturm AT ost1 DOT ping DOT de -- Stan Brown stanb AT netcom DOT com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Windows, the only computer virus to take up 20 megs of RAM | ------------------------------------------------------------------