From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Opperisano Subject: Re: IMCP not returning Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:08:18 -0400 Message-ID: <20050611160818.GA9697@bender.817west.com> References: <1118504253.18567.1.camel@debianbox> <20050611155825.GA9624@bender.817west.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050611155825.GA9624@bender.817west.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:58:25AM -0400, Jason Opperisano wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:37:33PM +0300, Sadus . wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to ping to a host and its not answering from location 1, but > > it is answering from location 2, now when i ping from location 1, i can > > see on the host's logs that location 1 can reach the machine since i log > > icmp pings. > > > > i still can't get replies from the box on location1 (i can ping any > > other machine on the net so my ISP doesn't block ICMPs) > > you have a routing problem. $host knows to get to $location_1, but > $location_1 doesn't know how to get back to $host (or has an invalid > route to to it). i transposed that. i meant: $location_1 knows how to get to $host, but $host doesn't know how to get back to $location_1 (or has an invalid route to to it). but i got this part as i intended: > start at $host with: > > ip route get $location_1 > > and follow the trail until it makes a wrong turn. -j -- "Peter: Well, fine. Until you put 'Gumbel 2 Gumbel' back on the air, I'm going on a hunger strike. Can you live with that? Huh, can you?" Peter: You gonna eat that stapler? Network executive: Mr., you can't eat a... Peter: Wanna split it?" --Family Guy