Re: can't ping machine outside of company.

[Michael Ault <mikerault yahoo com>]

Are you going through a firewall? It may be blocking
pings as a security step.

Mike
--- "Chen, Douglas" <Douglas Chen Micrel Com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I inherited a Linux box (RedHat 8.0) and try to set
> it up to
> fit into my subnet. After changed IP address,
> gateway address, and reboot.
> Everything looks fine except I am having difficulty
> to ping any site outside of
> this company. for example "ping www.yahoo.com". The
> IP address
> got resolved, but ping command yields on result. If
> I started the browser, I would get
> "the connection was refused by attempting to contact
> www.yahoo.com". But I have
> no problem on the other Linux box when try to used
> this same line.
> 
> I have no problem to ping router, DNS server, and
> there is no iptables command
> running to block the traffic. 
> 
> Any idea? Thank you for your help in advance.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
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Michael R. Ault
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