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(usagi-users 02181) Re: ping6: recvmsg: No route to host



On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:05:26PM -0000, Philip Ross wrote:
> Everything is working fine apart from pings and traceroutes from the linux
> box.  I can make tcp connections and send/receive udp packets fine.  Other
> local machines have no problems with pings or traceroutes routing through
> the linux box.  I can ping the linux box fine from an external host.
> 
> When pinging a remote host from the linux box I get the following results:
> 
> # ping6 www.uk6x.com
> PING www.uk6x.com(kesey.uk6x.com) 56 data bytes
> ping: recvmsg: No route to host
> ping: recvmsg: No route to host
> ping: recvmsg: No route to host

Upgrade your kernel.  I have *no* idea what caused this problem, but it
happened frequently on 2.4.18 (though not universally...I never figured
it out).  I haven't seen it at all in other kernels.

noah

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Noah Meyerhans
Computer Resource Services, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

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