Ping

[ZakkWylde969]

Alright. I'm really fed up with my ping command. I can't ping anything outside of my network. I'm using a DHCP ethernet NIC cable connection with the Mandrake 9.1 connection. Whenever I try to ping something outside of my network I experience a 100% packet loss. I have no firewall set up that would block them. Someone recommended checkin iptables and that showed up normal. I'm at a loss as to what is making my ping not work. if anyone can help me I would be greatly appreciated.

**Also If you need more info just ask. I think I covered everything though

[Geolingo]

Could you ping outside your network in windows? Most broadband ISPs tend to EAT ICMP ECHO traffic for security reasons these days. Prevent you from mapping the network, etc. Post a traceroute for us.

[FloatingPoint]

Pretty much the same situation over here. I tried a couple of addresses, only one got thru. It wasn't anything like this not a few weeks ago, so I guess DeepBlackMagic's right.

[ZakkWylde969]

By Traceroute I guess you mean to the website I' trying to ping. here it is.

 [root@dhcp-214-1141 root]# traceroute ask.com
traceroute to ask.com (65.214.39.7), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  ga-cmng-cuda2-c7b-1.atlaga.adelphia.net (68.71.179.1)  11.833 ms  11.087 ms
 9.993 ms
 2  68.67.127.133 (68.67.127.133)  10.547 ms  10.098 ms  10.017 ms
 3  68.168.193.53 (68.168.193.53)  15.530 ms  21.763 ms  19.475 ms
 4  g1-02-01-00.a0.atl90.adelphiacom.net (66.109.14.201)  18.167 ms  11.536 ms
14.432 ms
 5  g1-01-01-00.r0.atl90.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.193)  14.822 ms g1-02-00-00.r0.atl90.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.97)  13.110 ms  17.394 ms
 6  g1-00-00-00.p0.atl90.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.202)  13.224 ms  12.293 ms  11.274 ms
 7  ge9-2.er1.atl4.us.above.net (209.249.11.113)  12.467 ms  13.290 ms  11.979 ms
 8  so-4-0-0.cr1.lga2.us.mfnx.net (208.184.232.166)  27.823 ms  28.594 ms  27.930 ms
 9  pos0-0.pr1.lga2.us.above.net (216.200.127.150)  29.003 ms  27.036 ms  27.942 ms
10  uunet-abovenet-oc12.lga2.above.net (208.184.231.246)  31.654 ms  31.899 ms
29.932 ms
11  526.at-5-0-0.XR1.NYC8.ALTER.NET (152.63.23.74)  31.523 ms  31.290 ms  30.781 ms
12  0.so-2-2-0.XL1.NYC8.ALTER.NET (152.63.19.29)  28.553 ms  29.068 ms  29.597 ms
13  0.so-7-0-0.XL1.BOS4.ALTER.NET (152.63.0.209)  55.892 ms  35.585 ms  33.452 ms
14  0.so-7-0-0.XR1.BOS4.ALTER.NET (152.63.16.122)  35.518 ms  39.943 ms  34.286
ms
15  0.so-7-0-0.WR1.BOS6.ALTER.NET (152.63.29.217)  40.779 ms  40.288 ms  43.569
ms
16  * * *
17  208.254.32.5 (208.254.32.5)  37.867 ms  36.082 ms  42.910 ms
18  65.214.32.81 (65.214.32.81)  38.955 ms  40.393 ms  37.290 ms
19  * * *
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I noticed that at 16, and 19 + I get all stars. maybe thats where they are dropped.

[Hammer]

Yes, the packets are being dropped outside of your own network. Not much you can do about that.

Trying pinging/tracerting something else that will respond.

[Thantos]

check out Ping Plotter. Very good tracert and ping program.