On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:41:58PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > There are some addresses I cannot ping, while I can access them with > Netscape, ftp or finger (depending on the type). I can't figure out what > is difference between these addresses and the ones which I can ping > succesfully.
This may be a result of firewalling at the remote site. It's possible to disable ping replies. I believe through ICMP accept/deny rules, though I'm new at this. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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