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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada In Crosstalk
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:06:20 -0500
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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.

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