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Ping
Yeah. some of you might remember I had problems with this before. It still isn't working. I've tried a lot of things. Ping and traceroute don't work. I have internet access on Redhat. I've checked my firewall settings and even turned them off for a minute and tried. Nothing seems to be working. I've heard some stuff about iptables and the such, and I don't know what to do. all help is great guys.
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I recently had a problem on one of my machines whereby ping would give me an error, (10050). I fiddled around with my router/firewall for ages but couldn't find it.
I knew it couldn't be ZoneAlarm because I'd turned that off in the startup folder. However, after a week of mucking about, I ran the de-install on ZoneAlarm and presto - it all started working.
I can only assume the driver that ZoneAlarm installs was getting installed anyway and had somehow interferred with my network.
Ping was not the only thing that had stopped working Seti@Home could not get new workunits, AV auto update stopped working etc.
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I do not have any firewalls running and I uninstalled the stadard firewall that came with it. I don't understand why I can have internet access and all, but my computer wont let me ping outside the "network" which is my ethernet cable connection. I'm lost.
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you have access to the internet and can do everything else that you need to do on the net? (sorry if I'm not getting everything here, I don't know the previous history of your problem).
Might I ask why it is so important to run ping and traceroute? I mean, other than checking to see if a certain server is up or whatever, why do you need to do this?
And if I understand your post correctly, you can ping to any device on your intranet?? If that's the case, then you have a problem at the point where your connection comes in, it's not a problem with your computer's setup.
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>>> I do not have any firewalls running
Nor did I... or so I thought.
If you can ping your local host 127.0.0.1, then your ping program is working. If you can ping other IP's on your lan, then your hub/switch is working. So your router or beyond must be filtering your enquiries.
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Well traceroute is supposed to be good if you cant get into a site, and I hear ping is supposed to be helpful with advanced tasks you can do. I want to have a broad knowledge of how to work a linux machine and thats just something in my way that I want to figure out.
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ping and tracert have a few very limited uses, probably the quickest way to get a dns translation. Many servers/routers/gateways now offer the ability to switch off replying to pings etc., thus a failing ping to a site actually means a lot less then it used to.