[Techtalk] Feeling like a newbie again:route

[Leslie Simpson]

Melanie, 

You can delete the rejected host from the table by doing.

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

Just put del instead of add and it works perfectly :)

~ Leslie

> 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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