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by herpderperator 1425 days ago
> Further, the system that replies with a Destination host unreachable is the system which doesn’t have a path to the requested network - so you immediately know where to start looking.

No, that's "Destination net unreachable". Destination host unreachable means it didn't get an ARP response so it doesn't know the MAC address of the system with that IP.