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 20DAE1381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 14:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A6DCE0EEB; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 14:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C06B8E0E22 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 14:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f170.google.com with SMTP id cb5so157966wib.1 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 07:36:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Q2xCg7vwEIZl204/pLzJmgCEdzORiZ+z0kJ5othY/DU=; b=YE+iwFCRJtIQumBNzy2VAXy71ccy/uZCmnXnq/i9CEDVVCSjE9GQ+ZGvFbdbK+RXYZ 1ut0gbxnllVIxfz6SPDbJHbS3BEdeH+P1kIquQcF+nRgOwbrS7hVtIqQxBTglZQs8Mng KRzB5x3GCSOGQJsj+e338HxtYZx+51UGUzIQlau43ADkhntbNArzA6cITDwlhAaPBaCn dkf9JU5C5uM/4JOqP3VIXBUhsWCPWMzhkYkATViOS/zQqsJuneW1Ys6Yedjn9AIbQPjM cUgz1L6TH3i5FErZpyUc7HcJUghBub9mvGTNjS4vhdWLo0DPolxMNfCId0GOHMtXWj78 Md0g== X-Received: by 10.180.211.19 with SMTP id my19mr9972251wic.19.1378046160351; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 07:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-25.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a8sm11360289wie.6.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Sep 2013 07:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:32:19 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system References: <522338F2.3030206@hadt.biz> <5223391D.6090905@hadt.biz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dabdc5d7-9d35-4337-bb88-2d47aa803311 X-Archives-Hash: fd88a45622418aa59bbb2fb60201eb25 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