[ale] default devices or routes

[Vaidhy Mayilrangam]

you might have multiple default routes.. 
if you can do a route -n and show the routing table, someone 
might be able to pinpoint the problem..

Vaidhy

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:58:37AM -0800, John Wells wrote:
> I have two NICs (eth0 as external to internet, eth1 as
> internal to internal net).  I have the default route
> set up as going out through eth0 (external).
> 
> How do networked applications determine which device
> to use?  I can ping my external DNS server but mozilla
> won't resolve hosts, and in order to ping a host by
> hostname I have to specify "ping -I eth0
> www.yahoo.com".  Do mozilla and the like use the
> routing table, or am I mistaken in my thinking? 
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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