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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Subject: Re: Ada In Crosstalk
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:06:20 -0500
Date: 2003-01-29T12:06:20-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dm191b.dv2.ln@jellix.jlfencey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E3808A2.8070902@cogeco.ca

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

>> jlfencey@jellix:~> ping www.stsc.hill.af.mil
>> PING wbmas-stsc1.hill.af.mil (137.241.248.34) from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX :
>> 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 
>> --- wbmas-stsc1.hill.af.mil ping statistics ---
>> 8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% loss, time 7011ms
>> 
>> But it answers http requests:
> ...
> 
> It is also not unusual for firewalls to reject ping requests,

Agree. Currently this is not the case here for me, but it is quite 
usual.

> For that reason, and others, you cannot rely on ping
> as a reliable indication.

ACK.


Vinzent.

-- 
Cocaine is nature's way of telling you you have too much money.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-29 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-26 19:12 Ada In Crosstalk Richard Riehle
2003-01-28 11:11 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2003-01-28 12:04   ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-01-28 13:34   ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-28 15:09     ` David C. Hoos
2003-01-28 16:20       ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-28 16:24       ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-28 17:49         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-28 20:57           ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-28 21:00             ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-29  8:26           ` Dr. Michael Paus
2003-01-29 10:09             ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-29 14:43               ` Dr. Michael Paus
2003-01-30 18:24                 ` Michael Bode
2003-01-29 15:20             ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-29 17:00               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-29 17:06                 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2003-01-28 18:42         ` tmoran
2003-01-29 13:09         ` John English
2003-01-29 14:51           ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-28 17:09       ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-28 17:08         ` David C. Hoos
2003-01-28 18:40         ` chris.danx
2003-01-29 15:01   ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-30  7:04     ` Dr. Michael Paus
2003-01-30 19:18       ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-29 19:56 ` Marc A. Criley
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