Re: linux ppp routing problems - can't ping anything!

From: James Carlson (james.d.carlson_at_sun.com)
Date: 07/20/04


Date: 20 Jul 2004 15:10:57 -0400

Walter Schiessberg <w.nospam.usenet@arcor.de> writes:
> I actually tested it...

I think it's likely that _your_ ISP is doing the filtering. It works
fine for many of the rest of us. ("www.yahoo.com" is a CNAME
resolving to www.yahoo.akadns.net, which then resolves to an array of
p<xxx>.www.dcn.yahoo.com servers, at least when I look at it.)

% ping www.yahoo.com
PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.109.118.69) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from p6.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.69): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=26.6 ms
64 bytes from p6.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.69): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from p6.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.69): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=23.2 ms

--- www.yahoo.akadns.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2021ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 23.291/25.317/26.629/1.465 ms

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