Help with ppp0 defaultroute

[Jerry Hubbard <jhubbard@mlc.net>]

Please, someone, point me in the correct direction, or show me how I am
being such a dummy. This must be something simple.

When host on my home LAN are listed (hostname xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx) in
etc/hosts, the ppp0 default route changes. (The localhost.localdomain
entry was not changed.) I can not retreive email or connect to web
sites. I have tried connecting with the FQN (www.foo.com) and the IP
address. Both of these methods fail and shows it is not a DNS problem.
(Correct me if I'm wrong.)

When the etc/hosts entries are removed it changes back to the correct
defaultroute.

Where can I set the ppp* default route back to 0.0.0.0? Does anyone know
why it changes.

This is a Microtel system, runing RH9, with all the updates applied.
The browser is Mozilla and the email program is Evolution. The etc/hosts
file has been built with the Network Device Control>Network
Configuration applet and/or with a text editor. It does not matter.

I have searched Google and Red Hat sites, but no luck on RH8 or RH9.


Results of route command with the etc/hosts file built and working.

[root@microtel /]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
64.199.128.14   *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
192.168.200.32  *               255.255.255.224 U     0      0        0
eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
lo
default         64.199.128.14   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
ppp0



Results of route command when the etc/hosts contains only the localhosts
entry.

[root@microtel /]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
mlcnet-nas01.ml *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
192.168.200.32  *               255.255.255.224 U     0      0        0
eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
lo
default         mlcnet-nas01.ml 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
ppp0


host.conf is
order hosts,bind

resolv.conf is
nameserver 64.199.128.2
nameserver 64.199.128.3


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