Refer to the exhibit. A technician is testing connection problems in the internetwork. What is the problem indicated by the output from HostA?

If Router2 routing were the problem, HostA would receive ICMP time exceeded or unreachable messages from a reachable next-hop, not a local failure at the first hop.

An ACL on Router3 would cause packets to be dropped deep in the path, producing timeouts or unreachable replies from Router3's address, not an immediate local error.

If Fa0/24 on Switch1 were down, HostA would not have link and could not send any frames at all, but the exhibit implies HostA is able to generate the output, indicating its local interface is up.

When a host has no default gateway configured, or an incorrect one, it cannot forward packets beyond its local subnet. The output from HostA would show an immediate local failure such as 'Destination host unreachable' generated by HostA itself, not timeouts from intermediate routers. This distinguishes a gateway misconfiguration from routing or ACL issues that would produce responses from further hops.