The ability of others to ping my IP address, 216.99.206.23, apparently disappeared when I moved to different DNS servers and a different domain registrar. Or, it's been non-functional before then but no one told me that.
I can ping that address from the LAN and it works, but that's looking at the world-addressable WAN IP address from the inside, not the outside. According to the folks at SpiritOne the inability to use ICMP to ping my address is in my firewall/router, a Netgear FVS318. However, I cannot find any reference to turning on or off ICMP on any of the admin Web pages. The docs I have are all for the VPN components of the FVS318 and I don't believe that I ever learned what to do with it. I've no idea what to change to let others ping my IP address. It should be possible as I have no reason to block that service. I don't see that service specifically listed in the Netgear's service list; I suppose that I could try adding it if I know whether it used UDP or TCP and what ports would be appropriate. Expertise solicited. TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
