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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!news.bc.net!torn!fonorola!uniserve2!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ping-ing MIT hosts Date: 25 May 1995 06:19:23 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3q17hb$pp@havenII.uniserve.com> References: <3pp5f4$avd@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm4-0.tvs.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 In article <3pp5f4$avd@news.bu.edu>, mi@cs.bu.edu says... > >Hi! I have a strange problem. I connect to Internet using ppp. I can ping, >ftp, telnet, etc. to hosts all over, but not to ANY of *.mit.edu hosts. >Ping just says: "network is down" :-( If I log-in to my U-ty, I can >check that MIT is alright. What is so special about packets FreeBSD >sends, that MIT machines distingushes them, and ignores? (-: I assume, >that Linux's home doesn't like FreeBSD :-) Thanks in advance for any >clue on the subject, Sounds like a routing problem. Try a traceroute from your machine, and from your other account. It will likely show whats wrong. Tom