Re: Can this possibly be right

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:04:48 +1100


On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:36:54 -0500 (EST),
Jim Nance <jlnance@avanticorp.com> wrote:
>Hello all,
> I think I may have found a bug, but it may just be a problem with
>my understanding of how networking works. I have a machine running
>2.0.27 and I can ping the machine www.analogic.com. However, if I
>try to telnet to the same machine I get an error message about
>there being no route to the host:

Not a kernel bug. The "no route to host" packet is coming from
Analogic-gw.ALTER.NET (137.39.206.14). Looks like the gateway is
incorrectly configured and is rejecting TCP for www but letting ICMP
through. Send a mail to webmaster@analogic.com and complain.