It may be simply that the target host is set not to respond to pings. Some
ISPs, such as the one I use, do this for security reasons (pings can be used
in denial of service attacks). See if you can traceroute to the host in
question. Or telnet or ftp (or whatever you actually need to do).
At 09:51 PM 4/6/99 +0800, Choong Hong Cheng wrote [abridged]:
>I managed to ping myself, localhost by 'ping localhost'
>
>but it seem than I can not ping servers outside my box :(
>[root@localhost /root]# ping www.tm.net.my
>PING www.tm.net.my (202.188.0.175): 56 data bytes
>
>--- www.tm.net.my ping statistics ---
>2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
>Anyone know what's hapenning ?
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