From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 9:40:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stereophonic.noops.org (adsl-63-195-97-84.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A63937B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tcannon@localhost) by stereophonic.noops.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0OHeLa33876; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:40:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tcannon@noops.org) X-Authentication-Warning: stereophonic.noops.org: tcannon owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:40:21 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Cannon To: Lord Raiden Cc: Subject: Re: Strange routing issue In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020124121620.009e0100@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: <20020124093555.I33619-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just because it can ping the gateway does not mean that it knows to use that machine as the gateway. While it all worked for the download, perhaps your /etc/rc.conf got borked somehow and the default route listing somehow didn't survive a reboot. What does 'netstat -r' say? -tcannon On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > Ok, here's a weird one I ran into. Not sure how to fix it. Just > installed a FreeBSD 4.5 "everything in one box" kind of server (aka it > covers everything via one machine rather than several) for a client and for > some strange reason it installed fine off the snapshots via FTP and > everything was happy hunkey dorrey, until I decided to start updating > things. Now I'm getting "no route to host" yet I can ping the gateway > fine, and on a matching win2k box next to it I'm surfing and ftp'ing all > over the place without a hitch. > > Now here's the catch. On their site they've got a Novell firewall/proxy > server that they absolutely refuse to get rid of. All inbound and outbound > traffic goes through that and for security reasons they refuse to abandon > it. So I can only assume that I'm hitting the proxy and getting stopped, > but if this was true, why did it work fine for the ftp install off of the > floppy disks and why is it giving "no route to host" as though the gateway > wasn't even connected, yet the same box, on the same hub can get to the > internet fine. I swap drives and plop a win2k drive in the same machine > and it routes fine. Swap drives (it has a swappable drive bay for quick > exchange of operating system drives/data drives) and it's back to the "no > route to host". > > Anyone got any ideas on this? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message