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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: No Route To Host.. what's up with that?
Date: 18 Mar 1996 23:56:24 GMT
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nailers@teleport.com (Blake Swensen) writes:

> Now when I ping phil (as listed in my hosts) I get a no route to host error 
> message.  I can ping the ip address directly OK... as well with other 
> addresses on the net.  

Please, show us the routing tables (``netstat -rn'' output).  This is
far easier to understand than digging through several hundred lines of
shell script.  Don't forget to tell us which IP addresses belong to
`phil' (either the part of /etc/hosts, or the output from `nslookup
phil', whichever is appropriate).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)