Printer pingable from all hosts except from one

[Nisar Ahmad]

Hi There

A printer pingable from all other hosts but not from one.

Any reason please ?

Thanks in advance

Nisar

[Naveej.K.A]

hi,

how r u pinging the printer.

using IP address. Check whether host and the printer are in the same subnet. If not, check to see that the route to the printer is defined. try the tracert command.

If you are using hostname to ping the printer, check to see whether the corresponding entry has been made in /etc/hosts or the name resolution database.

with best wishes
Naveej

[Nisar Ahmad]

Hi Naveej

All hosts are same. I check host file already. I tried both IP and host name.

Thanks

Nisar

[Hoefnix]

Hi,

adding to the post of Naveej. Check if the host has multiple NIC's. Then try ping -o
Break the ping(Ctrl-C) after 5 - 10 seconds and you get the routing information.

HTH,
Peter

[Bill Hassell]

Another method is to use traceroute:

traceroute 12.34.56.78

This will trace the path from your computer to the printer. If the path is unreachable, you have a network routing problem. NOTE: if your printer does not have a corresponding route setup, the printer will work only on the local subnet but not respond for computers on a different subnet.