Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

Can you ping it?  It might not be running at all!

Sadly, the inability to ping (or traceroute) to a host is no longer a reliable indicator of whether or not the host is up or even if it exists. Tools like nmap will tell you, but who knows what paranoid-security-theater-homeland-security laws you'll run afoul of if you scan strangers?

Sad, really, and much less useful than it use to be.

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Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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