On 01/09/2013 15:28, Grant wrote: >>>> My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others >>>> (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on >>>> both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop && shorewall clear'. Could >>>> my AT&T business ADSL connection on the remote system be blocking >>>> inbound pings? >>>> >>> >>> Possible, have you tried pinging your remote system from a different >>> location? You may try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ >>> >> >> >> Sorry, wrong link: http://ping.eu/ping/ > > I get 100% packet loss when pinging from there. > > - Grant >
try an icmp traceroute, if you are lucky you'll get a result that tells you on which hop the pings cease to work: traceroute -I but do read the man page (traceroute is like ps in that there are many versions around and options don't always match up with what folk say on mailing lists) -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
