PPP, default route, and long waiting, wierd problem

["Ben Allen" <ocean@northlink.net>]

Ok here is my problem I use PPP to dial-up to my isp. Simple enough, I
use the Nat feature in it to serve my LAN. It connects fine, internet
works just great. Nevertheless, here the problem, as long as there is a
default route in my route table it takes about a minute for anything to
connect to 172.16.1.4, which is the nic of the box. Even if you use that
address locally it still takes forever. Moreover, it takes forever to
show my route table. If I go ahead and delete the default route, it will
run perfectly. A weird thing about SSH when I connect to the box with
SSH it asks for my password right away and then it sits. Also I noticed
that it takes sendmail forever to startup. I just rebuilt PPP from a
updated source tree. What could it be?? Maybe it's more of a generic
problem and not related with PPP, since when I put in a false default it
did the same thing.
Thanks for any help,
Ben
ocean@northlink.net
 
Routing tables
 
Internet:
Destination      Gateway            Flags 
default          fastethernet0.as53 UG     
10.0.0.2         10.0.0.1           UH     
127.0.0.0        127.0.0.1          UG     
localhost        127.0.0.1          UH     
172.16.0.0       link#2             U      
uni              127.0.0.1          UGH    
172.16.1.21      0:3:6d:16:2d:2f    UH     
fastethernet0.as as5300-pet1.dialup UH     
BASE-ADDRESS.MCA 127.0.0.1          U      
 
Internet6:
Destination      Gateway            Flags 
default          localhost          UG     
default          localhost          UG     
localhost        localhost          UH     
::127.0.0.0      localhost          UG     
::224.0.0.0      localhost          UG     
::255.0.0.0      localhost          UG     
::ffff:0.0.0.0   localhost          UG     
2002::           localhost          UG     
2002:7f00::      localhost          UG     
2002:e000::      localhost          UG     
2002:ff00::      localhost          UG     
fe80::           localhost          UG     
fe80::%dc0       link#2             U      
fe80::%lo0       fe80::1%lo0        U      
fec0::           localhost          UG     
ff01::           localhost          U      
ff02::%dc0       link#2             U      
ff02::%lo0       fe80::1%lo0        U
 
This is my current ppp.conf
default:
 set log phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command Warning Alert Error Filter
 set device /dev/cua03
 set speed 28800
 set server /var/run/internet "" 0177
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK
ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT"
myisp:
 set phone *****
 set authname *****
 set authkey *******
 set timeout 30000
 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
 enable dns
 set redial 10.3 20
 add! default HISADDR