From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A281381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 16:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAA4DE0DB9; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 16:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81841E0D98 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 16:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id p57so3016673wes.16 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:50:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=3gehknetoK8QDnmuDMSibDFZLMxAPyC8so2niBa8SAs=; b=kcXiPQXJCqy5ycc+u1vMBtxRce58cTKkXYwNmnxGu47+cminsDTeKr09421HCiemkb k4jHLQ1E0tL7dpGUHqsoV1cd5yiFbqXI4BRgjA2FUgQi9Dlfa1afHfuE24xcrDqFr+vR eFWH6omgkro+fuLy7nig9LfC2OQERpF6eCR4YO6rLrwioChueN9prN2An/W2mGXjIhu2 Ckw9L+wrvkrvVtQtG5dHfCOvHNhQUkp8UFMP61VW4sgpE1mF2lWD40Ikm9kt7wIS6ZkW ZW3caaHtZoePqKpsWHCVilWhJjPCagysrpgBEI8JeNCRPJ9Y4I64wLqMiTprD13zKKBF f86g== X-Received: by 10.194.93.105 with SMTP id ct9mr19410283wjb.6.1378054204156; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u8sm12155760wiz.2.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 17:49:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.10.7-gentoo; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2639383.Ti1Ad0dQck"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201309011749.43253.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d50ed840-b9ea-4408-8c37-4700181723d7 X-Archives-Hash: fe640b602e4f664cebe296775e6cc57e --nextPart2639383.Ti1Ad0dQck Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 01 Sep 2013 16:04:17 Grant wrote: > >>>>> My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others > >>>>> (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on > >>>>> both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop && shorewall clear'.=20 > >>>>> Could my AT&T business ADSL connection on the remote system be > >>>>> blocking inbound pings? > >>>>=20 > >>>> Possible, have you tried pinging your remote system from a different > >>>> location? You may try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ > >>>=20 > >>> Sorry, wrong link: http://ping.eu/ping/ > >>=20 > >> I get 100% packet loss when pinging from there. > >=20 > > try an icmp traceroute, if you are lucky you'll get a result that tells > > you on which hop the pings cease to work: > >=20 > > traceroute -I > >=20 > > but do read the man page (traceroute is like ps in that there are many > > versions around and options don't always match up with what folk say on > > mailing lists) >=20 > I did 'traceroute -w 30 -I ip-address' several times and the last IP > displayed is always the same. I looked it up and it's an AT&T IP > supposedly located about 1500 miles from my machine which is also on > an AT&T connection. Does this tell me anything? >=20 > - Grant Out of interest, does it show the same with you use the -T option? It coul= d=20 well be a congested link. Try again in off peak times to see if it still=20 drops packets. If it happens off peak it could well be a misconfigured nod= e. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2639383.Ti1Ad0dQck Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJSI3AnAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeuekIAMgDNH3Ru5Eg/VdMMMiTZEoK VP+wlufnIhXQQz8mm3F/quNnIci6Ubp0P5JHYUtlCr6jdhAKLFQwte0ZMUrD4m6y WQ5u8q4933sYRll8VCVmza2a4AIzWsrV7UDm0B03mxMFFQrcbPAKajQMkxjcIjsF tgropsfcVVFXv8xMupnm8hZci2smpPguu6qbW4VcQEFeX+ovbgY1/t3knwLL04Qu ktYTWHdJhXmsRQquSrkeWf/ZPEUmpZkADojwk6oyfXaHnTxeGYfRC3Y0pv3vRr/Z GsbZ4bkWVMUs5iGolWy5ZM/OgZDRWHlkdBpRfytnnt0c12sJUXE4AJ/9pGnbFPI= =YqMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2639383.Ti1Ad0dQck--