Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:27:46 -0500 From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> To: "Phil Cooper" <sendphilmail@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Ping and general network weirdness Message-ID: <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGCEJMJIAD.john@day-light.com> In-Reply-To: <DCCFB0AD-F6D9-4BDD-9379-B03C4DDE7077@gmail.com>
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run:
dig fragile.mshome.net a
more /etc/resolv.conf
more /etc/host.conf
more /etc/hosts
that should give you some good clues
--
John Brooks
john@day-light.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Phil Cooper
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:10 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Ping and general network weirdness
>
>
> Thanks;
>
> I checked with ifconfig, and fragile's IP is actually 192.168.0.224,
> and I put this in the hosts file.
>
> Now, I can ping and ssh into fragile using the IP address, but
> pinging "fragile" still assumes 192.168.0.116 is it's IP - so does
> the fault now lie with the other machines on the network? How do I
> get them to realise that fragile==192.168.0.224 and not .116?
>
> - P
>
>
> On 30 Jun 2005, at 00:57, fbsd_user wrote:
> >
> > Do you have fragile.mshome.net in the /etc/hosts file?
> >
> > To ping using fragile.mshome.net you would need a DSN server
> > to resolve that name to an internal IP address.
> >
> > Look in the ports collection for djbdns
> >
> >
> > -----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
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody;
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > From any machine, or fragile itself, pinging "fragile" or the IP
> > gives:
> >
> > 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$
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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