Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 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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I can surf the net, ftp, telnet but couldn't get reply from ping. I think you
are right, the ISP disable the ping
Do you use Nessus before ?
