Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:14:14 -0400 From: Christopher Black <cblack@securecrossing.com> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Cc: Phil Cooper <sendphilmail@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ping and general network weirdness Message-ID: <1120090454.920.17.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEPKHHAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEPKHHAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Phil Cooper
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:43 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Ping and general network weirdness
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> Hi everybody;
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> Not doing too well with my first freeBSD install. I have a machine
> set up with the name "fragile", no ipv6, DHCP, no ipfw, and sshd on.
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> Problem is, I can ping out to other machines on the network, or to
> another machine on the Internet ('net connection via another winXP
> machine), but neither of the other machine on the network can ping
> fragile. Fragile can ping itself via localhost, but not by name.
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> From any machine, or fragile itself, pinging "fragile" or the IP
> gives:
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> bramley:~ phil$ ping fragile
> PING fragile.mshome.net (192.168.0.116): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ^C
> --- fragile.mshome.net ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> bramley:~ phil$
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> Any ideas?
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:57 -0400, fbsd_user wrote:
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> Do you have fragile.mshome.net in the /etc/hosts file?
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> To ping using fragile.mshome.net you would need a DSN server
> to resolve that name to an internal IP address.
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> Look in the ports collection for djbdns
It's obviously resolving the IP to 192.168.0.116, it could be a routing iss=
ue. What is the output of 'netstat -rn' and ifconfig?
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Christopher Black
Chief Security Engineer
Secure Crossing
22750 Woodward Suite 304 - Ferndale, MI 48220
Tel (800) 761-4299 | Direct (248) 658-6120
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