[Techtalk] Feeling like a newbie again:route

[Michelle Murrain]

Hi Folks,

I'm feeling a bit sheepish, but I'll go ahead.

I've found myself in a pickle. At some point, (portsentry did this - it's a 
long story) the route to my particular host (outside of the network) was 
rejected using the following command:

"/sbin/route add -host $TARGET$ reject"

Where (I'm assuming) $TARGET$ = my current IP address.

However, when I look at the routing table:

  #route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

I've used route to do basic network setup, but I've never used it to reject 
or block routes. I know that there are several routes that have been 
blocked, and in pouring over the man pages, I can't seem to find a way to 
list them.

Futher, I thought that the following command might work
:
#route add reinstate -host my.ip.address
reinstate: Host name lookup failure

(I have cable modem dynamic IP - but even if I put in my weird domain name, 
I still get a host name lookup failure).

So, ye of great route wisdom, help!!

TIA!

.Michelle

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