On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, jason unrein wrote:
Arrg. i'm stumped on this. I've tried doing exactly what the firewall howto tells you to do but i get mixed results. I can ping everything inside my network, my internet ip, my isps gateway and nameservers and a variety of other sites but for some reason i can't ping all sites on the internet. Does anyone have anything i can try because i really need this going. Any help is appreciated.
Hi Jason - This isn't exactly help, but have you considered that the problem may *not* be on your end? If you can get from inside your firewall to your ISP's nameservers, and to some sites on the internet, then it could be that your ISP is having routing troubles. Also, I believe that in an effort to protect themselves from DoS attacks, some administrators have set things up so their routers/servers do *not* reply to pings. Like I said, this isn't exactly help, but it may be that you are blaming yourself for external problems. -- Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq