thanks everyone for you help and support and suggestions and comments and off line comments and inline comments, and just love on this issue...
much appreciated... -----Original Message----- From: Mike O'Toole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:03 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Re: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? Local Machine Trace Route good...now what??? http://proxyfaq.networkgods.com/ Read the FAQ Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott.Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT 2000 Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:52 PM Subject: RE: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? Local Machine Trace Route good...now what??? > I can telnet to the outside just not ping > what is the udp or tcp port number > and is there a link I can follow in the future > > I think it is the winsock proxy service that is messing me up... > > any one any one...hello any one out there??? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott.Wiseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:44 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? Local > Machine Trace Route good...now what??? > > > Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM) > (C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. > > C:\>tracert rochs3 > > Tracing route to rochs3 [192.168.1.3] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms ROCHS3 [192.168.1.3] > > Trace complete. > > C:\> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:18 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? even > better.. .tracert google... > > > Yes you need to put in the gateway. The gateway is there to handle any calls > off the subnet > > do a tracert to a machine local to the subnet ie off the same hub/switch and > give us those results. this will confirm if your machine tcp stack is > screwed or not. > > cheers > Dean > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott.Wiseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:17 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? even > better.. .tracert google... > > > C:\>tracert google.com > > Tracing route to google.com [216.239.37.100] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1 * * * Request timed out. > 2 * * * Request timed out. > 3 * * * Request timed out. > 4 * * * Request timed out. > 5 * * * Request timed out. > 6 * * * Request timed out. > 7 * * * Request timed out. > 8 * * * Request timed out. > 9 * * * Request timed out. > 10 * * * Request timed out. > 11 * * * Request timed out. > 12 * * * Request timed out. > 13 * * * Request timed out. > 14 * * * Request timed out. > 15 * * * Request timed out. > 16 * * * Request timed out. > > what the H#$## does this mean...I put in the proxy... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott.Wiseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:08 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? > > > Not far at all.... > > I must need to put in the gateway? > > Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM) > (C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. > > C:\>tracert google.com > > Tracing route to google.com [216.239.37.100] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1 Destination host unreachable. > > Trace complete. > > C:\> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:38 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? > > > > > Subject: why can't I ping or telnet from behind a proxy? > > confused and sort of dazed > > Pings are not proxied. Proxying is a way of caching information so that > it can be re-retrieved more quickly (and cheaply). > > What you mean instead of a "proxy" is a firewall. A firewall is in > place to protect a local network from inbound packets, by restricting > the type of data that comes through, and through which methods it is > allowed to come through. The firewall can also be configured to stop > certain types of packets from going out from the local network to the > internet, for example pings and traceroutes. > > For example, at my work, the firewall (which is a router) is configured > to allow packets to be transferred outward only by a single server on > the network. It is also configured to block a large amount of data > that's coming into our network. The server that's allowed out is > doubling as a proxy server, so it is caching HTTP and FTP requests so > that if the same file is requested twice from the Internet, it's looked > up locally instead. > > In my case, pings go out via this server, through our firewall/router, > and out to the net. It would seem that in your case, your firewall is > blocking ping requests. > > Try doing a traceroute and seeing how far you get -- that way you'll > know at which point your pings are being blocked. > > For example: > > tracert google.com > > > > Adam > > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. 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