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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:32:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw3KyOaD9DefwftN_kTHDCDOeM4H5bsRoHh9+J=fncFFyg@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/09/2013 15:28, 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'.  Could
>>>> my AT&T business ADSL connection on the remote system be blocking
>>>> inbound pings?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Possible, have you tried pinging your remote system from a different
>>> location? You may try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, wrong link: http://ping.eu/ping/
> 
> I get 100% packet loss when pinging from there.
> 
> - Grant
> 

try an icmp traceroute, if you are lucky you'll get a result that tells
you on which hop the pings cease to work:

traceroute -I

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)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-01 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-01 12:28 [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system Grant
2013-09-01 12:54 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-09-01 12:54   ` Michael Hampicke
2013-09-01 13:28     ` Grant
2013-09-01 14:32       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-09-01 15:04         ` Grant
2013-09-01 16:49           ` Mick
2013-09-01 18:03             ` Grant
2013-09-01 17:50           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-01 18:07             ` Grant
2013-09-01 18:32               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-01 18:50                 ` Grant
2013-09-01 19:10                   ` Mick
2013-09-02 18:17                     ` Grant
2013-09-02 19:03                       ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-09-05 13:00                         ` Grant
2013-09-03  6:12                   ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 15:35                     ` Mick
2013-09-05 13:17                       ` Grant
2013-09-07 15:41                         ` Mick
2013-09-13 18:39                           ` Grant
2013-09-05 13:04                     ` Grant
2013-09-05 13:09                       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-05 13:19                         ` Grant
2013-09-01 15:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-09-01 15:09   ` Grant

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