Re: Posting using Pan

On Mon, 28 May 2007 22:22:40 -0300, Snowbat wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:56:38 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

Strange, sky.com has news.sky.com registered in their DNS,
195.173.72.91, but it does not respond to a ping.

Not so strange if you're familiar with satellite tv broadcasting in
Europe... news.sky.com in a browser gives you the web page of Sky News, a
24 hour tv news channel.

Indeed it is. They must have blocked ping packets.

.

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