this may be a silly question, but....

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 08:57:29AM -0800, Antoinette wrote:

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> i cannot ping it...here's the output from traceroute
> 
> traceroute 170.223.226.49
> trying to get source for 170.223.226.49
> source should be 170.223.103.96
> traceroute to 170.223.226.49 (170.223.226.49) from
> 170.223.103.96 (170.223.103.9
> 6), 30 hops max
> outgoing MTU = 1500
>  1  bcores1msfc-g-v403.partners.org (170.223.103.94)  1 ms  0 ms
>  0 ms
>  2  ccores1msfc-g-V990.partners.org (170.223.2.53)  1 ms  1 ms 
> 1 ms
>  3  acorer3-ccores1msfc-t3-atm-1-0-58.mgh.harvard.edu
> (132.183.17.58)  3 ms  3 m
> s  3 ms
>  4  acores1msfc-vlan2.nsmc.partners.org (170.223.24.73)  6 ms  5
> ms  3 ms
>  5  * *^C

OK. At this point, I recommend going back to your network
engineers and asking for proper settings for default route and
netmask. Then ask them if they need to make firewall changes to
allow whatever protocol you are using (ssh?) in to this machine.

-dsr-


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