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On Sunday 01 Sep 2013 16:04:17 Grant wrote: |
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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'. |
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> >>>>> Could my AT&T business ADSL connection on the remote system be |
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> >>>>> blocking 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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> >> |
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> >> I get 100% packet loss when pinging from there. |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > traceroute -I |
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> > |
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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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Out of interest, does it show the same with you use the -T option? It could |
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well be a congested link. Try again in off peak times to see if it still |
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drops packets. If it happens off peak it could well be a misconfigured node. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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