,--[ On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:33:48PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I have been noticing this for many days.
| 
| When I ping google.com from my OpenBSD firewall I always get packet
| loss where as other sites don't give any packet loss.
| 
| Is there anybody experiencing the same problem?

I also tried this on one of my remote GNU/Linux box, and found the similar 
results:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c20 google.com
PING google.com (64.233.187.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=249 
time=58.5 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=249 
time=59.2 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=7 ttl=249 
time=58.6 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=8 ttl=249 
time=57.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=9 ttl=249 
time=59.1 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=10 ttl=249 
time=58.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=11 ttl=249 
time=65.5 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=12 ttl=249 
time=58.4 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=13 ttl=249 
time=59.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=14 ttl=249 
time=57.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=15 ttl=249 
time=58.7 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=16 ttl=249 
time=58.5 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=17 ttl=249 
time=58.6 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=18 ttl=249 
time=58.5 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 
time=59.0 ms
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=20 ttl=249 
time=58.4 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 16 received, 20% packet loss, time 19149ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 57.723/59.110/65.527/1.733 ms
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c20 yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 
time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 
time=73.1 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 
time=73.2 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 
time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 
time=72.9 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 
time=72.8 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 
time=72.9 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 
time=72.9 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 
time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 
time=73.5 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 
time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 
time=73.1 ms 
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 
time=72.8 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 
time=73.2 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 
time=72.8 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 
time=73.2 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=17 ttl=56 
time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 
time=72.7 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 
time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=20 ttl=56 
time=72.8 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19190ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 72.788/73.057/73.574/0.311 ms
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c20 openbsd.org
PING openbsd.org (199.185.137.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=89.0 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=88.6 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=91.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=4 ttl=241 time=93.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=5 ttl=241 time=92.1 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=6 ttl=241 time=113 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=7 ttl=241 time=103 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=8 ttl=241 time=89.2 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=9 ttl=241 time=89.0 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=10 ttl=241 time=89.2 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=11 ttl=241 time=88.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=12 ttl=241 time=105 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=13 ttl=241 time=88.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=14 ttl=241 time=95.9 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=15 ttl=241 time=97.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=16 ttl=241 time=96.2 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=17 ttl=241 time=95.7 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=18 ttl=241 time=94.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=19 ttl=241 time=89.5 ms
64 bytes from cvs.openbsd.org (199.185.137.3): icmp_seq=20 ttl=241 time=91.8 ms

--- openbsd.org ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19187ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 88.575/94.168/113.197/6.464 ms

Looks like Google is taking preventive measure against Ping flood[1] .

References:
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_flood

HTH
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