On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:34:37 +1300
"Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, 13 December 2004 12:19 p.m.
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: DNS and Ping problems at home
> 
> xtra.co.nz does not reply to pings - well they don't from work here.
> 
> www.ihug.co.nz does, try that.
> 
> the other possibility is that orcon block ping trafic.
> 
> 
> Looks like you are onto it too Nick.....
> 
> serva root # ping www.ihug.co.nz
> PING www.ihug.co.nz (203.109.252.42) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from tig-nz-akl-ns-42.ihug.net (203.109.252.42): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58
> time=78.5 ms
> 64 bytes from tig-nz-akl-ns-42.ihug.net (203.109.252.42): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58
> time=77.6 ms
> 64 bytes from tig-nz-akl-ns-42.ihug.net (203.109.252.42): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58
> time=78.8 ms
> 
> --- www.ihug.co.nz ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 77.625/78.321/78.814/0.506 ms

always pays to try a few different addresses when ping fails. more and
more people are blocking it. 


-- 
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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