[NTLUG:Discuss] Troubleshooting when you lose the Internet (2 questions)

[Greg Edwards]

Rick Matthews wrote:
> Everybody knows that "stuff happens" on the net.  I'll click a link 
> from a search engine and it will be slow (or dead).  No big deal.


> 16:37:28 kernel: ll header: <MAC address 1>
> 16:38:34 ntpd[1180]: sendto(NTP Server2): Network is unreachable
> 16:38:34 ntpd[1180]: sendto(NTP Server3): Network is unreachable
> 16:38:35 ntpd[1180]: sendto(NTP Server4): Network is unreachable
> 16:39:07 kernel: martian source <ip1> from <ip2>, on dev eth0
> 16:39:07 kernel: ll header: <MAC address 1>
> 16:39:11 ntpd[1180]: sendto(NTP Server5): Network is unreachable
> 16:39:18 ntpd[1180]: sendto(NTP Server6): Network is unreachable
> 

> worked again afrer I finally rebooted.
> 
> Any ideas what could have been the problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Rick
> 

These sound like a routing problem.  I assume these are internet 
addresses?  Is your default route setup correctly?  Run "netstat -nr" 
and see where 0.0.0.0 is getting sent.

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