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Running Ubuntu 9.04. I can ping hosts all day long but when I try to ping a host that doesn't exist, it instead sends pings to 8.15.7.100, which turns in to packet loss, but I'd prefer it if it told me the host cannot be found.
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (66.249.90.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lga15s04-in-f104.1e100.net (66.249.90.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=31.3 ms
$ ping somehost
PING somehost (8.15.7.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
I'm new to Ubuntu so this might be a feature, but anything I can do about it?