Re: OT: cannot ping remote machine

2011-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Genes MailLists wrote: >> I can login with ssh to the openvpn address 192.168.5.22 , >> and then I get the external address with > > Bit confused - can you ssh to the remote IP from your home machine ? I think I said that I cannot ping or ssh into the remote IP, but I can access it with openvp

Re: OT: cannot ping remote machine

2011-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 12:05 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/29/2011 09:48 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > I can login with ssh to the openvpn address 192.168.5.22 , > > and then I get the external address with > > Bit confused - can you ssh to the remote IP from your home machine ? > >

Re: OT: cannot ping remote machine

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/29/2011 06:48 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > When I run "traceroute 79.46.130.4" from Ireland > I get as far as Milan (in Italy) but then just get *** . I've seen this before. It just means that the next machine on the path is dropping pings on the floor instead of responding. As long as you

Re: OT: cannot ping remote machine

2011-05-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/29/2011 09:48 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I can login with ssh to the openvpn address 192.168.5.22 , > and then I get the external address with Bit confused - can you ssh to the remote IP from your home machine ? On 05/29/2011 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > There's a TCP-base

Re: OT: cannot ping remote machine

2011-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 14:48 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm using a Billion modem/router in Italy; > I'm not sure if the problem lies with this? > Or if some server along the way refuses to allow pings? Most likely the latter. Some ISPs don't respond to pings from their internal networks, even

OT: cannot ping remote machine

2011-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
I can access a remote computer (in Italy) with openvpn, but I cannot ping its external address, or ssh to this address. I can login with ssh to the openvpn address 192.168.5.22 , and then I get the external address with [tim@alfred ~]$ lynx -dump "http://checkip.dyndns.org