23 Oct
2012
23 Oct
'12
3:29 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:43:50PM -0400, Dennis Boone wrote:
Some (clueless) people believe that. But there are still people around who
actually understand networking. For instance, the Google public DNS servers
respond to ping just fine (which is why "ping 8.8.8.8" is one of my simpler
"is external connectivity working" tests).
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
Do you
actually get a response from a telnet to 93.104.238.74? I
don't--it times out. Likewise, a ping fails.
Ping fails everywhere these days. For some reason people think it
increases security to block it.