Hi all, Im new on this forum and linux too.
This is my problem I have Slackware 12.1 and used before the wget command but now when i try to use it i receive the following message: "failed: No route to host" but i have connection i can navigate the web. Hope you can help me...
Remember im a newbie...
Thanks

Well, perhaps there really is no route to that specific host you are trying to download from...
The machine you use for downloading, is that the same machine where you do your Internet browsing?
Maybe you want to tell us the download server's name and the output of
Replace download.server.org with that download server's name of course. The command will take 5 seconds to generate a route diagnostic.

Eric

Ok thanks for answer me.

First, yeah is the same machine. The page where i tried to download the package was slacky.eu, i used the command you told me and got this
HOST: Ulianov Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.1.1 0.0% 5 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.2 0.2
2. 201.210.192.1 0.0% 5 242.3 344.3 242.3 417.3 71.4
3. 172.16.11.7 0.0% 5 186.4 329.4 186.4 426.5 95.4
4. 172.16.67.2 0.0% 5 128.1 388.0 128.1 535.6 154.5
5. 200.44.43.85 0.0% 5 148.6 382.5 148.6 513.0 143.8
6. 200.44.43.50 0.0% 5 230.8 408.1 230.8 557.0 122.1
7. 144.223.26.217 0.0% 5 222.0 413.8 222.0 519.6 116.7
8. 144.232.13.33 0.0% 5 267.1 394.4 267.1 489.6 93.9
9. 144.232.13.37 0.0% 5 228.0 365.9 228.0 488.2 99.0
10. 160.81.159.110 0.0% 5 168.6 377.4 168.6 529.4 134.7
11. 195.22.196.139 0.0% 5 235.4 523.8 235.4 666.8 166.8
12. 195.22.208.34 0.0% 5 209.9 515.9 209.9 653.2 174.8
13. 212.245.228.21 20.0% 5 570.7 601.5 570.7 650.5 37.3
14. 151.6.6.74 20.0% 5 522.9 573.8 522.9 611.5 42.8
15. 151.6.4.42 40.0% 5 464.6 541.3 464.6 599.0 69.2
16. 151.6.80.43 20.0% 5 459.9 531.3 459.9 564.9 48.3
17. 151.1.162.109 20.0% 5 400.3 554.1 400.3 638.8 109.6

I really dont have idea what this mean so i appreciate if you can explain me.
thanks again

NExt time you post the output of a command, please use the tags to format that text better.

Now, mtr shows the network route from your PC's IP address to that of the remote server. Your IP address is 192.168.1.1 and slacky.eu has address 151.1.162.109. The route from start to end computer passes along 15 other network hosts.

The output also shows that 4 of the 5 packets that the "mtr" program sent to slacky.eu came back to your machine. That shows that your computer can reach the slacky.eu server.
So, connection-wise it all looks OK. Perhaps there is something wrong with the "wget" command you used?

Eric

Almost 2 months need to find my answer, and heres the thing:
Like I said, im a gnu/linux newbie, then, my first lesson about wget was on my work place where we have proxy, obviously when I tried it on my home never work.

So i make a "vi" on the /etc/wgetrc and put a # on the proxy line to mark it as a comment, and problem solve.

Thanks Alien bob, and I post this just in case, we are a lot of newbies LOL.