Re: ssh: no route to host

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:57 +0200, François TOURDE wrote:

> Le 15177ième jour après Epoch,
> Camaleón écrivait:
> 
>> "No route to host" usually means "I cannot see the machine at all" and
>> "I cannot see the machine at all" usually involves:
>>
>> a) SSH service is not running on the client b) IP of the client is
>> unreachable
> 
> I don't agree with that.
> 
> 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.

For instance, when your ISP has smtp port of your DSL connection closed 
and you try to establish a connection on port 25 via telnet with a remote 
e-mail server, you get a "no route to host" message which basically means 
that you cannot establish a connection with the selected computer on 
choosen port but it does not invlove that computer you are trying to 
reach is "off" or disconnected.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón