Re: "route" issue

[Kevin Buhr <buhr@telus.net>]

Nick Lindsell <nick@skywhale.net> writes:
>
> I have a problem with portsentry in that I cannot remove
> blocked IPs.  The portsentry.conf is configured to use
> "route add -host $TARGET$ reject" for any $TARGET that crosses
> its path - in my previous experience "route del -host $TARGET$ reject"
> would remove the offender from the reject route. However on this
> machine I get "SIOCDELRT: no such process" and the target remains
> in the routing table. 

If you manually perform:

        route add -host 192.168.3.1 reject
        route del -host 192.168.3.1 reject

does it still fail?

Which Debian version of the net-tools package do you have installed?
It works for me with net-tools 1.60-4 on the stable Debian
2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.

-- 
Kevin <buhr@telus.net>