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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:08:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Wally Waliany <wally@scv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No Route To Host
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121150702.5192Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980118090718.00b1f1e8@scv.net>

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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Wally Waliany wrote:

> Recently I have been having problems with one of my FreeBSD servers(2.1.0)
> where the DNS server is not working as the web browsers respond with server
> not found message. When this has happened(every 2 hrs or so) I try to do
> traceroute to any site and I get the No Route to host message. The other
> FreeBSD box does not have this problem, that is I can traceroute to any
> sites. I have to reload my router to fix this situation on my server and I
> have to do this every 2 hours. I had the same problem at Thanksgiving for a
> week and it went away. What can I do to fix this problem. This server was
> working for almost a year before I had this problem at Thanksgiving.

Are you running routed?  If you don't need to, try disabling it; this will
insulate your servers from being taken down when the router goes on the
fritz. Routed removes any default routes, so if your net route gets busted
by a fried router, your computer can't figure out how to talk to the rest
of the world.  Don't forget to add a default route if you haven't been
running one.

One of the UOs routers killed my box in my first year here with the same
type of problem; routed died a quick and painless death. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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