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>>>>> My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others |
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>>>>> (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on |
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>>>>> both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop && shorewall clear'. Could |
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>>>>> my AT&T business ADSL connection on the remote system be blocking |
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>>>>> inbound pings? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> Possible, have you tried pinging your remote system from a different |
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>>>> location? You may try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ |
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>>> |
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>>> Sorry, wrong link: http://ping.eu/ping/ |
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>> I get 100% packet loss when pinging from there. |
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> try an icmp traceroute, if you are lucky you'll get a result that tells |
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> you on which hop the pings cease to work: |
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> traceroute -I |
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> but do read the man page (traceroute is like ps in that there are many |
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> versions around and options don't always match up with what folk say on |
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> mailing lists) |
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I did 'traceroute -w 30 -I ip-address' several times and the last IP |
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displayed is always the same. I looked it up and it's an AT&T IP |
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supposedly located about 1500 miles from my machine which is also on |
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an AT&T connection. Does this tell me anything? |
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- Grant |
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