From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 02:38:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7474116A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:38:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203FB43D39 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:38:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:27:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I0X009I1AUACYG0@pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:27:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (S010600609761a671.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.202.31]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I0X00512AU9KS@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:27:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com [192.168.23.1]) by francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6G2Rfbu036946; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:27:41 -0700 Received: from aardvark by localhost with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BlIRo-0000r6-VQ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:27:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:27:40 -0700 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted In-reply-to: <008201c46adb$32f16740$3301a8c0@salvation> Sender: aardvark To: Joshua Lewis Message-id: <20040716022740.GA2349@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i References: <008201c46adb$32f16740$3301a8c0@salvation> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to ping my ISP's Servers. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:38:07 -0000 Joshua Lewis disturbed my sleep to write: > I am able to ping my loopback as well as my static IP address. but I am > not able to ping any other system on the net, my ISP's DNS server nor the > ISP's Default Gateway. I am able to ping my system by FQDN and just the > host name from the FreeBSD box. > > Ping error for the DNS server ping is: > ping: sendto: No route to host > > Ping to the ISP Default Gateway > ping: sendto: Host is down "No route to host" makes me think that it's a routing problem. Does: netstat -rn | grep default show your ISP's gateway? If not, try adding it by hand as root: route add default [IP address of gateway] Try it again, and see if you still get "No route to host". Also, are you trying to ping these servers by IP address or FQDN? If by FQDN, try by IP address and see if the result is any different. I am now blessing your keyboard... -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.