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

[Lucas van Staden]

tim wrote:
> Shouldn't your router be 192.168... not 172?
>   

Nope, I am using the 172.168.0.xx range at home, as the 192.168.0.x 
range is used by my office, and the two clash when I am on VPN.

Just simpler to use a range at home that is not in use at office.
> 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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