General answer:
I was trying to do some diagnostics to determine the common point
of failure.
Well, just a few minutes ago, here on my home Linux systems, I
was able to get to IBM.com and then directly into "Ibmlink".
So now I have a circumvention.
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Addressing Ping:
Ping, as a diagnostic, first puts out the resolution of the name
given to it. If it can't resolve that, you know you have some
kind of DNS issue. If it can resolve it, but can't get a
response, you have a different problem.
And generally, I've found that these sites/pages do respond to
ping as IBM apparently realizes that some of us use this to
figure out if we have a problem.
But you are right, in my experience, not all of IBM's addresses
respond to ping.
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Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 10/13/2016 10:09 AM, Lucas Rosalen wrote:
I know that some IBM sites are designed to not respond to a ping
request.... not sure if this is the case though.
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2016-10-13 16:02 GMT+02:00 Steve Thompson <[email protected]>:
Apparently I can FTP to IBM to update ETRs, but I can't get ping to work
against ibm.com or traceroute (I run Linux on home systems).
Strange.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 10/13/2016 08:33 AM, John McKown wrote:
This URL works for me (near Dallas TX, don't know my company's ISP).
https://www-304.ibm.com/usrsrvc/account/userservices/jsp/
login.jsp?persistPage=true&page=/ibmlink&PD-REFERER=http:
//www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink&error=
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]>
wrote:
I can't ping it and it doesn't resolve with my employer's DNS or here from
my systems running Linux (two completely different ISPs and locals).
Makes it difficult to update ETRs.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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