Routing issues show up when hosts can talk locally but not to other networks, or when some destinations work and others do not. Troubleshooting them means checking two places in order: first the host's own IP configuration, because a single wrong value there breaks everything beyond the local subnet, and then the routers' tables, because every router along the path, in both directions, must know where to send the traffic.
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