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From: vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Weird named message/error
Date: 11 Aug 1995 07:00:51 GMT
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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Message-ID: <VIXIE.95Aug11000051@wisdom.home.vix.com>
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In-reply-to: polarix@io.org's message of 10 Aug 1995 09:34:53 -0400

>This weird error popsup from time to time;
>
>	named[46]: sysquery: sendto([192.36.148.17].53): No route to host
>
>Can anyone tell me what it means?

it means named received a query from someone at that address, but that when
it tried to send the response back, the local routing table ("netstat -rn")
did not include anything that covered the address.  not even a default route.
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Paul Vixie
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