>>>>> 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. > > 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)
I did 'traceroute -w 30 -I ip-address' several times and the last IP displayed is always the same. I looked it up and it's an AT&T IP supposedly located about 1500 miles from my machine which is also on an AT&T connection. Does this tell me anything? - Grant
