What machine is this /etc/hosts from? Have you looked in your router for a list of connected devices and IPs? Is that where your dns is being resolved or is it from salmo?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2025, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > In an earlier post you mentioned that caddis has an IP address of > > 192.168.55.2. This was showing in your /etc/hosts file. > > > > According to the output of ip above, caddis has 2 IP addresses: > > > > Ethernet: 192.168.55.112 > > wifi: 192.168.55.111 > > Ben, > > I saw that but it makes no sense to me. > > $ less /etc/hosts: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.55.1 salmo.appl-ecosys.com salmo mail # older desktop > 192.168.55.2 caddis.appl-ecosys.com caddis # Lenovo ThinkPad T430 > 192.168.55.3 baetis.appl-ecosys.com baetis # newer desktop > 192.168.55.4 router1.appl-ecosys.com router1 # Edge Router-X > 192.168.55.5 lemna.appl-ecosys.com lemna > 192.168.55.10 packy.appl-ecosys.com packy # HP laptop > 192.168.55.150 ata.appl-ecosys.com ata > 192.168.55.192 lj5.appl-ecosys.com lj5 > 192.168.55.194 colorp.appl-ecosys.com colorp > 192.168.55.200 wap.appl-ecosys.com wap > # End of hosts. > > > I think you have been connecting to the wrong device. As a test, try the > > following ssh command from your desktop (salmo): > > ssh 192.168.55.111 > > If that fails, try this one > > ssh 192.168.55.112 > > $ ssh 192.168.55.111 > ssh: connect to host 192.168.55.111 port 14982: No route to host > $ ssh 192.168.55.112 > ssh: connect to host 192.168.55.112 port 14982: No route to host > $ ^C > > No response for the latter. > > Rich >
