Unix ping -- "No route to host"

David Hajoglou hojo at greenland.i-tel.com
Thu Oct 7 15:44:16 UTC 1999


Yves,
	This looks like an ifconfig/route problem, not a dns problem.  Try
pinging a few ip addresses (not fqdns) of hosts outside of your network.
I bet you get the same error due to the fact that ping does not know how
to get to the network.  What Unix are you running?

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Yves Leclerc wrote:

> Now, I still have a problem.  When I now 'ping' from Unix, I get
> the following:
> ....
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: wrote www.maysys.com 64 chars, ret=-1
> 
>  --- www.maysys.com ping statistics ---
> 48 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong???
> Yves
> 
> 
> 
> 



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