[NTLUG:Discuss] Cannot ping from anywhere but the console

[Jack Snodgrass]

did you do 
ping -n 
to turn off reverse lookups. I've seen ping do weird stuff when it
couldn't do a reverse name lookup. Just a guess. 

jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Cannot ping from anywhere but the console


> I was helping someone out with their setup and he had
> me telnet into his box.  But even as root, I could
> not ping anything on his network... it would just
> hang until timeout.... yet he could ping everything
> from the console.
> 
> Does anyone know what causes this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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