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 DECC91381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 285C8E0FD5; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3CDDE0F97 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id f12so509137wgh.14 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:03:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=pFHHvM9oO48wgAELIgBzQu/nhqPZDCOPjQZbfoYGb+k=; b=LB207SNevzR4jZssjlnwYPTFejpb0u5tGrnVICxwT7Xn+9CebJH8+jb+OPtehp4jYx 8ZaImVz9k7dGfCxoKhxzmNdnBtpOQ1ddSCaTbCjMoDz93o1wCdVEVHhi5TSVCK+5+qOf faYmqH2ANZG53JUalk1IXQcc/nflrnU/fKg2WfoUCXyL5d4QusTljX9bgvoHP/pEXlJx BUZCYvAGMcE/wMxYDav7SU/OSEBTDuqGV1iLNZWfHVc2jDIS+2gXBxNv9mmfm8ECkpsw SkbsXiGTo2nWUW7Ctndo2b1sxV9B8r1c+aodeVLsZR/Vd0obAOTgv5vST6O0d4bzTzg6 lfwA== 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 X-Received: by 10.194.110.138 with SMTP id ia10mr19885324wjb.3.1378058616549; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.93.199 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 11:03:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201309011749.43253.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> <201309011749.43253.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 11:03:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 1d1d93d4-0d46-4e29-afff-e8a3a111aaaf X-Archives-Hash: c427e7ccdb2da81451d100c5294c093d >> >>>>> 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. >> > >> > 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) >> >> 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? >> >> - Grant > > Out of interest, does it show the same with you use the -T option? It could > well be a congested link. Try again in off peak times to see if it still > drops packets. If it happens off peak it could well be a misconfigured node. The last IP displayed is the same with the -T option. Off-peak at the destination? I've actually been trying all day under those conditions. You don't think it's likely to be the ICMP setting on the server's modem/router? - Grant