Re: [cobalt-users] no ping but ssh and http work

["Fragga" <fragga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

maybe the isp your box is hosted with has been suffering some sort of dos
attack
so they are blocking pings from their border router ?

mail them and check. same thing happened to me a while back.

fragga


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] no ping but ssh and http work


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ferwerda [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 9:25 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] no ping but ssh and http work
>
>
> Can anyone explain to me why when I attempt to ping our RAQ3 I get a
> "request timed out" but I can use a browser to get to the site and ssh
works
> getting to the site?  In the past, ping has a very reliable way to see if
> the system is running?  I tried using Ping Plotter which shows the trace
> route to the node and it reports that the destination is unreachable.
Yet,
> I can login and view web pages.  Doing a ping on the node to its address
> works of course.   Any ideas?
> --------------------------------
>
> Perhaps bacause the ICMP UDP port used by ping is blocked?
>
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