Aaron Konstam: Re: Network strangeness

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:49 -0700, David Gehrt wrote:
> > 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
> 
> <snip>
> 
> This should've gone out ~5 hours ago.  I Hope there is still a chance it
> might be useful..
> 
> dlg
Actually the problem was in the falsity of the statement that I don't
use iptables. iptables (on saturn, the f8 machine) was on by default .
So  I turned it off , ping saturn worked. host not working is a DHCP
thing.
Thanks for the responses. 
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