Confused about ping...

[Guy Fraser]

On Thu, 2005-06-10 at 15:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I had some troubles loading a web page, so I
> decided to try looking for connectivity.
> I did this:
> 
> $ nslookup www.worldwideschool.org
> Server:         151.164.11.201
> Address:        151.164.11.201#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   www.worldwideschool.org
> Address: 207.195.133.148
> 
> $ ping 207.195.133.148
> PING 207.195.133.148 (207.195.133.148) 56(84) bytes of data.
>  From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=0 Packet filtered
>  From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered
>  From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered
>  From 209.120.242.6 icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered
> 
> What does "Packet filtered" mean?
> 
> Using "man ping" gave no results on this, and "info ping"
> shows the same thing as "man".
> 
> Mike
It likely means that the response from your ping {icmp echo request} was
answered by something other than a pong {icmp echo reply}, and was
likely responded with an icmp prohibited host/net unreachable response.