Dear Bill,
The point is that with mit.edu you need only type 7 characters...
...and when did MIT stop answering pings?
Is this a network setup issue on my part? Please confirm the facts for me
as a favor. This could just be my network segment. I do not know.
Regards,
Flint
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, William Stearns wrote:
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:54:52 -0400
From: William Stearns <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Voting a slashdot out of the firehose
Good morning, Paul,
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Paul Flint wrote:
Greetings List Lurkers,
This issue seems important to me:
I guess IBM and MIT failed to take your short typing needs into
account when they tightened up their firewalls. *grin*
http://slashdot.org/submission/1084305/The-ping-is-gone?art_pos=71
...on the other hand, the good folks at Slashdot see things differently.
Just set up a server of your own and allow pings to it - the default.
www.rackspacecloud.com provides virtual hosts that are dead simple to set up
with full root access to a good range of Linux distributions, the least
expensive of which is $10.95/mo.
Add
ip.address.of.server pi.ng
to /etc/hosts and you can save 4 keystrokes by typing "ping pi.ng"
:-)
Cheers,
- Bill
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