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 3697D1381F3 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C719E0EBA; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f182.google.com (mail-ea0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12D30E0EAD for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:12:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f182.google.com with SMTP id o10so891189eaj.41 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:12:51 -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=36R8vCWGfzPKC2gCZEvSD6J0aw9x3SJg1u+Z/GCARGo=; b=Qx64Bxv8I0ENwoR1JG6VdX3HMajwazcgVYzrSKOZzRQZwVL6RtL9e/a2oHdKth/vQH Ou9Q4UuP0+1RfuUXomyxlvn1FlRoRUHSbo3vPB6bQgaG6l+zp3W7EWBe1gqjt9UQN3KY qQFH8kTn2Ukbpufm5pWzLW4zjr+CxY5uTvaY0Elg8P/sBow0Dz7IMxBllE9EiZEbG23d 4XcoZ3IDNYn4XLbFaB+JvIlv51mdtRB629icejstW/8xyXdUvkXIaqK6kLsIz2Vtk8qe HZlOHyWNfuUHyRKnkb2qwoYVGXi640hDbWIKtSBdtmCUZF0k0TSQSTbyymKZQw0Nf+zT N49A== X-Received: by 10.14.37.133 with SMTP id y5mr1185005eea.77.1378386771547; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.201] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id x47sm48581880eea.16.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5228826F.9000805@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:09:03 +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> <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> <52237E83.9080206@gmail.com> <52238823.9060008@gmail.com> <52257DB5.3090607@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d064cbd9-b301-491d-8d99-3e5ab1f9bf49 X-Archives-Hash: fcd8781a2640cee385ed6954cf688d8b On 05/09/2013 15:04, Grant wrote: >>>> This is where it gets tricky. You identify the last router in the list >>>> for which you have an address or name, and contact the NOC team for that >>>> organization. Ask them for the next hop in routing for the destination >>>> address you are trying to ping and hope that they will be kind enough to >>>> help you out. >>> >>> Oh man that's funny. Really? Let's say they do pass along the info. >>> Then I hunt down contact info for the culprit router based on its IP >>> and tell them their stuff isn't working and hope they fix it? >>> Actually, since the last IP displayed is from AT&T and my server's ISP >>> is AT&T, I suppose it's extremely likely that the culprit is either an >>> AT&T router somewhere or my own server and I could find out by calling >>> AT&T. >> >> Well, I did try to convey a sense of what it sometimes takes to deal >> with such things. Usually your ISP deals with it for you and you'd be >> amazed how often they pick up the phone to do exactly what I described. > > You did, and I suppose it has to come down to that at some point. > Thank you for your help Alan. You're welcome, and I hope you get the issue satisfactorily solved (I don't envy you at all) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com