[plug] no route to host(s), but can ping?

[tim]

Shouldn't your router be 192.168... not 172?

Regards,
Tim Bowden
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:31 +0900, Lucas van Staden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just can't figure this out, and I am sure I am missing something obvious 
> here.
> 
> Box is debian hardy 8.04
> 
> Can for example ping www.google.com:
> 
> PING www.l.google.com (66.249.89.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from jp-in-f104.google.com (66.249.89.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 
> time=276 ms
> 
> but cannot traceroute: (unknown host?)
> 
> --- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 1 received, 50% packet loss, time 1004ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 276.041/276.041/276.041/0.000 ms
> web at webserver ~ $ sudo traceroute6 www.google.com
> traceroute: unknown host www.google.com
> 
> Found that my smtp server stopped sending mail, with error 'no route to 
> host'
> 
> 2008-11-28 11:21:51 1L5szN-0003qk-OM aspmx.l.google.com [209.85.163.27] 
> No route to host
> 2008-11-28 11:21:51 1L5szN-0003qk-OM alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 
> [209.85.135.27] No route to host
> 2008-11-28 11:21:51 1L5szN-0003qk-OM alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 
> [209.85.135.114] No route to host
> 2008-11-28 11:21:51 1L5szN-0003qk-OM alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 
> [74.125.47.114] No route to host
> 2008-11-28 11:21:51 1L5szN-0003qk-OM alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 
> [74.125.47.27] No route to host
> 2008-11-28 11:21:51 1L5szN-0003qk-OM aspmx3.googlemail.com 
> [209.85.199.27] No route to host
> 
> Same issue, I can ping those, but I cannot traceroute.
> 
> I can access internet, downloads etc fine from the box.
> 
> Any Ideas what I am missing here? Or what to look at?
> 
> Seems like services cannot do DNS?
> 
> resolv.conf is set to my router as the dns server:
> 
> nameserver 172.168.0.1
> 
> 
> Tia
> Lucas
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