> > I may be missing something in the thread here, ping does not work? > > Can I see an example? Is it possible that the host that you are trying to > > ping is not answering? > > absense of ping isn't proof of much. some security admins drop icmp for > various reasons, mostly bad ones, but they do it nonetheless. > > richard > I understand that absence of ping isn't proof of anything. But look at the results of my commands. Ping is unable to resolve the host at all. links browser also says unknown host. If icmp was dropped, ping would not have reported 'unknown host'.
