What could be the cause of randomly getting “No route to host” errors when trying to ssh or sftp?

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Published on 2010-01-11T23:51:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 9:13 UTC
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The computers are within the same network using WLAN.

The error doesn't always show. Sometimes I can connect without a fuss, and sometimes the error shows.

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