On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:29:52 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > 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.
A host can be "unreachable" due to many causes. (...) > 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 That response ("connection timed out") looks like a kind of filter in between. > But perhaps you didn't receive the same error? Not in my case. I simply got "No route to host" message. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.07.25.14.55...@gmail.com