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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Pinging Yahoo! (WAS: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?)
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Vivien M. wrote: > > Yes, I think we all came to the same conclusion. From now on, everyone > > should ping www.microsoft.com to test connectivity. :) > > They outsmarted us already in Redmond, sadly. > [email protected]:~$ ping -s www.microsoft.com > PING www.microsoft.com: 56 data bytes > ^C > ----www.microsoft.com PING Statistics---- > 19 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > There are a few other organizations that fit your criteria, though, > methinks... some of whom allow ICMP just fine and provide things that > are slightly more vital than microsoft.com :) What's below doesn't quite fit the 'vital' criteria, but... 6:08:57pm|[email protected]:/home/melange> ping -c 1 www.riaa.org PING www.riaa.org (208.225.90.120): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.225.90.120: icmp_seq=0 ttl=111 time=29.475 ms --- www.riaa.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 29.475/29.475/29.475/0.000 ms 6:09:06pm|[email protected]:/home/melange> -- Bob <[email protected]> | We're all wrong.
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