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 6A2D71381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 504F4E0F49; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com (mail-wi0-f180.google.com [209.85.212.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42A01E0E1E for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f180.google.com with SMTP id l12so996590wiv.1 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 08:04:17 -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=PpKnEXDcp2o0J2CfYnTVsS5l60QVgt6C4Gp35ESW6cE=; b=BZTCQnbVUy6U57Az6FB7kFJBbVA6lIF3sKAeloadk1lGnaOmkY0JLcfk27oOpH7SL5 dAzNZe0cOnNOabZLKzdiX7uivt91tyn5W/fl1f4LQ8lx2R+ChCF3fBP6wO7ruS9MKBAo XFr8Q3R1ACz766qI4x7Hz5ECtYMuEe3G4f6BAhQ6FP0rZfvPdcyAs4sm8pnoZbT73xyJ M8mkH4oly05ltNyIxS+1COpZZRfLNiS67XNYViWkYkQkNZ3NUXQXDq4DIyfIS5iyeOMz v766THTaCNjtCs4cJ80p0wnS0jnrXyiOeGJ4RTJnGS5djSvr+7MdVX2bWgJ9IU+57KjC XhQw== 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 10.194.219.1 with SMTP id pk1mr1493170wjc.36.1378047857883; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 08:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.93.199 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:04:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> References: <522338F2.3030206@hadt.biz> <5223391D.6090905@hadt.biz> <52234FF3.7050309@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:04:17 -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: ba3bb78f-4eb3-471a-9fd9-6dc343ea7a3c X-Archives-Hash: e96f2423b51cf3301ac286770e11a162 >>>>> 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