> A traceroute from neko to mitch times out on the first hop.
Is the first hop (traceroute -n) the IP address of the machine that is
the correct router?
>
> I've checked arp on all three boxen, not an issue.
So there is an entry in the ARP cache for the router.
>
> I'm quite positive the issue is on neko herself, if it isn't a reverse dns
> cache issue. Is there anywhere else on neko that would be holding some
> kind of host or ip entry? a recursive grep of all files in /etc of patter
> "neko" yields these files:
>
If the ip address is correct when you are attempting the ping then
DNS has got nothing to do with it. Use traceroute -n to only use
IP addresses to remove the lookups.

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