I did that too, but instead of returning "time out", it states that protocol may not be running. I never saw this before, just wondering.

switch1#show ip default-gateway

192.168.10.94

switch1#ping 192.168.10.94

% Unrecognized host or address, or protocol not running.

Never mind. Now I am getting the correct ping time out issue.

Thanks.

I did that too, but instead of returning "time out", it states that protocol may not be running. I never saw this before, just wondering.

switch1#show ip default-gateway

192.168.10.94

switch1#ping 192.168.10.94

% Unrecognized host or address, or protocol not running.

Hello Marlon,

I guess you have:

no ip routing

if you are using an ip default-gateway

but I agree that this shouldn't prevent the use of ping command

if you enable ip routing you need a default route instead of ip default-gateway:

ip routing

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.10.94

and you need an ip address in the same subnet as next-hop / ip default-gateway.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Thanks a lot Justin, your reply saved me :)

That was my issue.  Thank you!!  This helped.

Hi there,

I had the same problem, when I was trying to ping using a hostname i got the error below. 

% Unrecognized host or address, or protocol not running.

After adding the 3 commands in the global configuration, I could ping normally.

ip domain lookup
ip domain name
ip name-server

Thanks!!!!

This fixed it for me. IP routing enabled with default route set correctly (on a /30 network). I could ping an IP, but not a hostname. I had name-server and domain-name set up, but not domain-lookup. That was a little odd, as I never use that on any other router.