Looks like they are rejecting ICMP on their firewall. Many companies do
this for security reasons.
http://earthlink.net is accessible via HTTP, so that proves they are up!
Is there any reason you must ping earthlink.net? Are you just using it
for testing purposes?
Joseph Hobbs
Compaq Web Services / GEAE Team
Tier 2/3 Support | Team Lead Backup
hobbsj@somecrazyfool.com
Joseph.Hobbs@ae.ge.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Philip Chan [mailto:karnak@look.ca]
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 4:35 PM
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: Re: [SLE] off topic
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:30:39 -0500
Landy Roman
can someone shed some light on why earthlink.net can't be pinged
Either they are down or they have setup their firewall to reject or drop ping request. Regards, Charles -- The box saids Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux -- 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 and the archives at http://lists.suse.com