On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:20 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that the machine may be configured to > not respond to pings. It is not as good of a test as it used to be. Pinging has only ever been a test of whether you can get a ping back. Some seem to think that you can use ping to see if a webserver is there, or a mailserver, or something else. You can't. All you do is test whether something pings back at that address, you don't test server software with it. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
