nmap as user works, root doesn't

[Jimmie James]

Can anyone make sense of this?
Straight DSL connection, no router.
using -e [any interface] results in the same errors

nmap-4.76

As root:
#nmap -v -v google.ca

Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT
Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.161.104.
WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 
64.230.197.58
nexthost: failed to determine route to 64.233.161.104
QUITTING!

As user:
~>nmap -v -v google.ca

Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT
Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.187.104.
Initiating Ping Scan at 22:35
Scanning 64.233.187.104 [1 port]
Completed Ping Scan at 22:35, 0.08s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 22:35
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 22:35, 0.06s elapsed
Initiating Connect Scan at 22:35
Scanning jc-in-f104.google.com (64.233.187.104) [1000 ports]

#nmap -iflist

Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT
************************INTERFACES************************
DEV  (SHORT) IP/MASK          TYPE        UP MAC
fxp0 (fxp0)  192.168.2.100/24 ethernet    up 00:11:D8:11:B7:4E
rl0  (rl0)   172.16.0.1/24    ethernet    up 00:E0:29:51:C7:61
xl0  (xl0)   10.10.10.2/24    ethernet    up 00:04:75:C7:27:DA
lo0  (lo0)   127.0.0.1/8      loopback    up
tun0 (tun0)  76.71.17.226/24  point2point up

WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 
64.230.197.58
**************************ROUTES**************************
DST/MASK         DEV  GATEWAY
64.230.197.58/32 tun0 76.71.17.226
127.0.0.1/32     lo0  127.0.0.1


Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
default            64.230.197.58      UGS         0   832901   tun0
10.10.10.0/24      link#3             UC          0        0    xl0
10.10.10.3         02:01:02:7b:3c:72  UHLW        1    57249    xl0   1004
64.230.197.58      76.71.17.226       UGH         1        2   tun0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0      303    lo0
172.16.0.0/24      link#2             UC          0        0    rl0
172.16.0.255       ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWb       1       18    rl0
192.168.2.0/24     link#1             UC          0        0   fxp0
192.168.2.1        00:0b:23:9c:f9:0c  UHLW        1        1   fxp0    448

#ifconfig
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
	ether 00:11:d8:11:b7:4e
	inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe11:b74e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
	inet 192.168.2.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
	ether 00:e0:29:51:c7:61
	inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe51:c761%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
	inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	status: no carrier
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
	ether 00:04:75:c7:27:da
	inet6 fe80::204:75ff:fec7:27da%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
	inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1492
	inet 76.71.17.226 --> 64.230.197.58 netmask 0xffffff00
	Opened by PID 13443


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