On Jun 14, 2020, at 19:55, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote: > > I am having some network connectivity issues that manifest itself through ping, wget, dnf, etc. > The symptoms are intermittent ability to ping, was wget, or connect to repositories. > > Where this inquiry is going is: If your internal network is using 192.168.1 or 10..50.10, what > should be in /etc/networks. > > My current file contains: > > default 0.0.0.0 > loopback 127.0.0.0 > link-local 169.254.0.0 > > And I'm pretty sure this is the default OS installed contents. > > I don't think this is related to my connectivity issue, just curious about what this file does. > > My old server (which is working just fine) has the same content in its /etc/networks file so not > configuring this does not seem to matter one way or the other. These are CentOS systems, aren’t they? CentOS doesn’t configure networking with /etc/networks. The files they use are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*. -- Jonathan Billings