[OLUG] Don't rely on Ping.

[Chad S. Lauritsen]

Drazak wrote:

> I keep seeing people recommending Pinging different locations to
> troubleshoot problems.  Again, you cannot rely on ping working much
> anymore on todays Internet, especially where NAT and IPmasq is going on.
> Both of the boxes where I have my shell accounts block pings using
> ipchains, and my DSL router as configured from Navix blocks it as well.
> Also, the NAT software on my Cisco Comp router at work also blocks pings.
> In fact, to diagnose problems I have to run my traceroutes from the router
> itself, not my normal workstation behind the router.

Thanks for the info. This is one thing I was wondering about....does anyone else have a radiks account, and if so, can they ping the PPP "server"/peer at radiks when they dialup? I would think that Nate would at least be able to get this far if others can.

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