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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>>>>> 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