Totally stumped - very long post

[Dan Busarow]

On Monday, November 20, 2006, at 10:52  PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On November 20, 2006 7:49:23 PM -0700 Dan Busarow <dan at dpcsys.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Well you don't need to worry about it being a problem with your Mac.
>> The traceroute isn't even making one hop.  What's your routing table 
>> on
>> the server look like?  Any ipfw/ipf rules?
>>
> I checked on the Windows box, and the pages behave the same way there, 
> so it's definitely not the Mac.
>
> No firewall running on the server, so it's not that.
>
> Here's the routing table:
>
> netstat -rW
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination                         Gateway                         
> Flags Refs      Use    Mtu    Netif Expire
> default                             vl25-core1.cdc01.propgation.net 
> UGS 0 98905056   1500     bce0
> 66                                  link#1                          UC 
> 0        0   1500     bce0

There's the problem.  You have a route for net 66

# route delete 66

should clear things up.

[snip]

[root at www ~]# traceroute 66.140.63.124
> traceroute to 66.140.63.124 (66.140.63.124), 64 hops max, 40 byte 
> packets
> traceroute: sendto: Host is down
> 1 traceroute: wrote 66.140.63.124 40 chars, ret=-1
> *traceroute: sendto: Host is down
> traceroute: wrote 66.140.63.124 40 chars, ret=-1
>
> Here's something odd.  If I change the first octet to anything other 
> than 66, the traceroutes run normally.  But if I leave the first octet 
> at 66 and change any of the other octets, they all return host is 
> down.  I double checked, and the defaultrouter is 66.221.96.1 in 
> /etc/rc.conf.

With the route to net 66 the only machines in net 66 you'll be able to 
talk to are those in your LAN

Dan