>>>>> François TOURDE <fra...@tourde.org> writes: >>>>> Le 15179ième jour après Epoch, Camaleón écrivait: >>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:57 +0200, François TOURDE wrote:
>>> No route to host means: "I or some other router on the road can't find >>> the hardware associated with the IP given, or the way to reach it". >> "No route to host" is a generic message that you can get on very >> different situations. > "No route to host" is the consequence of receiving an ICMP "host > unreachable" error. It means the ARP resolution failed for reaching > the next hop. … Or ICMP “host unreachable — admin prohibited filter”? See, e. g., [1]. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490854 >> For instance, when your ISP has smtp port of your DSL connection closed >> and you try to establish a connection on port 25 via telnet with a remote >> e-mail server, you get a "no route to host" message which basically means >> that you cannot establish a connection with the selected computer on >> choosen port but it does not invlove that computer you are trying to >> reach is "off" or disconnected. > When your ISP, like mine, is blocking the xx port, you should receive > a "connection timed out" message. > That's what I receive: > francois@fermat:~$ telnet gmail.com 25 > Trying 209.85.147.17... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out > But perhaps you didn't receive the same error? That's what happens when the packets are dropped, without any ICMP message whatsoever. In iptables(8) terms, compare: -A FORWARD -d 192.0.2.0/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP -A FORWARD -d 192.0.2.0/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-admin-prohibited -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/86sjpvt7ev....@gray.siamics.net