Min Chien Lim wrote: > My system has no problems accessing (telnet/pinging) systems with > 129.146.210.xxx or 129.146.xxx.xxx IP addresses but when the IP looks > like 129.xxx (something other than 146) .xxx.xxx, it cannot > ping/telnet to it. Doing a ypmatch on 129.xxx.xxx.xxx has no > problems. Any clues? What does your routing table look like? netstat -rn Paul. It looks like -bash-2.05b# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 129.146.210.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 129.146.210.250 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Min Chien __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com