On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:15:18PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a strange problem with a machine that had a fresh install > three weeks ago. Nothing new has been installed on it since then. > > About one time in four, after that machine has been booted, a ssh > to it (on a LAN) fails with 'no route to host'. Using ip link and > ip addr on it shows everything is OK, it's not a NIC that gets the And 'ip r' shows the machine has a default route to the gateway? It's a two way street. Do you have any roblems with outbound connections originating from this machine? d > wrong name or so. The network on that machine is set up using netcfg, > in the recommended way (/etc/conf.d/netcfg). > > Rebooting has solved the problem in all cases. Sounds delightfully racy. > Any hints as to what is going wrong ? I'm not sure there's enough info here for anyone to do anything more than guess.