Hi, David,
Maybe that's because sites like cnn.com reject all icmp packets. So your
packets get there, but there's no response. Maybe you should try
traceroute instead of ping.
Have fun,
bogdan
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, David Huybregts wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Still trying to get my internetconnection working...
>
> Because I thought I might have been installing a firewall of proxy, I
> thought I'd a reinstall. Worked like a charm.
> Now I can't even get my mail :-(
> Something has changes though... When I'm connected to my ISP I can ping for
> instance www.cnn.com or www.nasa.gov. It gives me an IP-number but that's as
> far as it gets. I donnot receive any packets back...
>
> So... it this a DNS-problem? I guess not, because ping finds a IP-number
> which belongs to a host...
>
>
>
> David.
>
