Ping and general network weirdness

[Christopher Black]

> 
> -----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?

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:57 -0400, 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

It's obviously resolving the IP to 192.168.0.116, it could be a routing issue.  What is the output of 'netstat -rn' and ifconfig?

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