"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with Neil. It sounds like a router issue. Possibly a DMZ > setting in the router is the same as the IP of the machine that > doesn't work correctly so the ping gets to the DMZ and the response is > sent out to the Internet instead of back inside?
I agree too. I once had a DMZ setting set up on the router long ago. The address was 192.168.0.19. It was an old home machine running openbsd with a pf firewall. Currently no machine on the lan has that address and the DMZ capability is disabled at the router anyway. (I just checked again for about the 10th time.) > I don't think you stated how the problem box got its address. Is it > fixed IP or something provided by the router? They are assigned by hand (by me) so static IPs. > If the 5 internal machines have consecutive addresses, have you tried > changing the IP address of the machine that doesn't work to something > above #5? Maybe disconnect one of the other machines and give the > problem box that IP address? No I haven't but I'll try it now... just ifconfigging up a new address. ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.27 <=was 192.168.0.4 route add default gw 192.168.0.20 ping ftp.ucsb.edu PING ftp.ucsb.edu (128.111.24.43) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from ftp.ucsb.edu (128.111.24.43): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=129 ms 64 bytes from ftp.ucsb.edu (128.111.24.43): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=117 ms [...] Oh boy, we in the chips now. Yippeee I new there would be some simple common sense test I would have overlooked. Thanks. So that proves something is blocking that particular address 182.168.0.4 and that seems almost certainly to be something on the router. It must be a setting I cannot find and it must be for icmp only since I've been able to traceroute or any other kind of connect, right along. I could just change that machines address but it would mean changing all other machines hosts files and such.... not too big a deal I guess. Might be easier to reset the router to default factory condition and and then set it up for my needs which wouldn't be much work either. It has a little hole where you press a pin and reset it. Is there any chance the blockage is coming from something on that machine and not the router?
