Ping and general network weirdness

[Christopher Black]

It depends where fragile is mapped to the IP.  If it's only in the hosts
file, the other machines have no way of knowing, and will probably fail
to resolve 'fragile' to an IP.  If it's in DNS somewhere, you just need
to correct the DNS record.

Try pinging by IP?

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 01:10 +0100, Phil Cooper wrote:
> 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 at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Phil Cooper
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:43 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions at 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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