telneting: one way and another

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I have the following problem using telnet while try to access a certain Solaris 8 Unix machine at work.

I want to access 128.1.11.1 , but my office is in the process of moving, and this curtial machine has yet to be moved to our new office. Thus, I access remotely via telnet.

My original IP was 128.1.11.234. I am now in 128.1.17.* network range.

Sucessful Access Patterns:

1) pre-move environment
128.1.11.234 -> 128.1.11.1

2) post-move
128.1.17.93 -> 128.1.203.7 -> 128.1.11.1

Unsuccessful Access Pattern:
128.1.17.93 -> 128.1.11.1

What is it that is keeping me from going directly from the 128.1.17.93 to 128.1.11.1? Why am I able to access through 128.1.203.7 ?

Do I need to change/added sometime to /etc/inetd.conf ?

Any suggestions here would be helpful.

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Can you ping 128.1.11.1 from your machine? I'm guessing it is probably a router problem. What is in your /etc/defaultrouter file and what is your netmask? You could use traceroute to see how far you get before you can't get any further.

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Firewall rules, perhaps?

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No, this is not an inetd.conf problem. You have a routing problem. Please post the output of the comand:

route -n

on all machines in question and we should be able to isolate the problem.