ping: kernel is not very fresh (warning)

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  I just got the following warning:

jojda:~>ping azar
PING azar (192.168.1.3) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
WARNING: kernel is not very fresh, upgrade is recommended.
>From 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

  while I only compiled kernel few days ago, it couldn't go bad in such
a short time, now could it?

jojda:~>uname -a
Linux jojda 2.4.10 #1 Tue Oct 9 00:14:15 PDT 2001 i686 unknown

  there are no problems when host responds (and azar in above example is
turned off so it was expected to be unresponsive)

  this is on debian unstable, jut ran update && dist-upgrade

  btw I couldn't interrupt it using ctrl-c or ctrl-\ (other programs in
the same xterm are interruptible using those keys so it's not xterm
settings)

  any ideas? TIA

	erik