Confused about ping...

[Robin Laing]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>I had some troubles loading a web page, so I
>>decided to try looking for connectivity.
>>I did this:
>>
>>$ nslookup www.worldwideschool.org
>>Server:         151.164.11.201
>>Address:        151.164.11.201#53
>>
>>Non-authoritative answer:
>>Name:   www.worldwideschool.org
>>Address: 207.195.133.148
>>
>>$ ping 207.195.133.148
>>PING 207.195.133.148 (207.195.133.148) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=0 Packet filtered
>> From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered
>> From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered
>> From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered
>>
>>What does "Packet filtered" mean?
>>
>>Using "man ping" gave no results on this, and "info ping"
>>shows the same thing as "man".
> 
> ----
> Just a wild guess is that a router between you and the target is
> preventing the icmp packets from progressing and thus, you are neither
> getting a ping back nor a reject back from the target.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 

Give traceroute a try.  It may work better in this case.

-- 
Robin Laing