On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Tun Yang wrote:
> # ping www.yahoo.com
> ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com
Do you have your DNS IP address(es) on /etc/resolv.conf !?
> I then got one of yahoo's ip addresses from the windows bootup and tried
> this:
>
> # ping 204.71.200.74
> PING 204.71.200.74 (204.71.200.74): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
> ping: wrote 204.71.200.74 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
> ping: wrote 204.71.200.74 64 chars, ret=-1
>
> if I do the ping without doing the route, ping replies with "no route to
> host"
>
> I have no idea why it come up with "operation not permitted"?
It could happens if you can't send/receive icmp packets ! Do you have any
firewall installed ? Check it for icmp packets ...
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
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Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
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