[mdlug] /sbin/route sending dns request for numeric addresses

[Dr. Robert Meier]

Netters,

I recently installed openSuSE-11.2 on a laptop,
and would appreciate any help with a few problems.


1. /sbin/route takes ~75 seconds to report a 4-line routing table.
    Kernel IP routing table                             <- immediate
    Destination     Gateway         Genmask         ...    <- immediate
    192.168.xxx.0   *               255.255.255.0   ...    <- 15SEC
    link-local      *               255.255.0.0     ...    <- immediate
    loopback        *               255.0.0.0       ...    <- immediate
    default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         ...    <- 25SEC
   immediate is less than 1sec
   15SEC and 25SEC seem excessive to me for these two lines
   No new lines appear in /var/log/message, /var/log/*, nor dmesg output

2. If ipv6 support is enabled
   yast2> [Networks Devices] [Network Settings] [Global Options]
          Enable IPv6: [<checked>]
   The network devices (only eth0 so far) never come up,
     and the route table contains only link-local and loopback lines.

3. software repositories fail to refresh
   yast2> [Software] [Software Repositories]
          [openSuSE-11.2-Oss] [Refresh/Refresh Now]
        reports fails to donwload
          http;//download.opensuse.org/
            distribution/11.2/repo/oss/media.1/media
        likewise for all (tds, utexas, ...) mirrors tried
          bash> curl -v <same uri>
        successfully retrieves apparently correct data.
   /var/log/messages only reiterates download failure.


To workaround problem 1,
   I added localdomain[192.168.xxx.0] and default[0.0.0.0]
     to /etc/networks
   and gateway[192.168.xxx.254] to /etc/hosts.
Why is this necessary?
strace /sbin/route reported a socket openned to 192.168.xxx.254:53
  and write 192.168.xxx.0 attempted twice.
Why does /sbin/route ask the dns server for an ip
  address for 192.168.xxx.0 which is already an
  ip address (as xxx is actually an integer)?

TIA,
--
Bob