Aaron Konstam: Re: Network strangeness

[David Gehrt]

> I have two machines on a home network:
> cyrus - wireless
> saturn - wired
>
> On cyrus : ping saturn and host saturn both fail saying saturn can't
> be
> found. However, ssh saturn works.
>
> On saturn: ping cyrus works but host cyrus fails.
> ssh cyrus, works
>
> I don't use iptables. Any explanations for this behavior?
>
> Errors are like:
> ** server can't find saturn: NXDOMAIN
>
> I suspect that some things use the local /etc/host bu others do not.

Have you checked the configuration on the wireless access point or
router?  My Linksys router has a firewall built into it.  I have not
modified its settings and it blocks inbound ICMP.

dlg

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This should've gone out ~5 hours ago.  I Hope there is still a chance it
might be useful.

dlg