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From: quentin@umb.umb.edu (Quentin Fennessy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Unhelpful error message
Message-ID: <740@umb.umb.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 89 19:08:44 GMT
Reply-To: quentin@umb.UUCP (Quentin Fennessy)
Organization: UMASS-Boston, Boston, MA
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I have two machines on an Ethernet. I got NFS up and running between them,
but a few days later it stopped for no apparent reason. The two machines
are a uVAX 3500 and an Olivetti 3020. When I try to ping from the oliv to
the VAX it is successful. When I try to ping the OLIV from the VAX I am 
successful. However I can not ping the VAX from the VAX. I get the 
following message:

VAX : ping olivetti
olivetti is alive
VAX : ping VAX
sendto: Can't assign requested address
ping: wrote localhost 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
VAX :

I will appreciate any hints at all.

Quentin Fennessy
617-499-4291