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Author: jason pearl
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Subject: ping -f address.com
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:09:52 -0800 (PST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <> wrote:

|> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Michael Havens wrote:
|>
|> > Why could I ping things with out the www but not with the www?
|>
|> Different IP addresses.
|>
|> Some systems allow pings to work. And some don't.
|>
|> > added the www and it wouldn't ping. I then pulled up the page with the
|> > www and there it was. So then what.... was there a redirection from the
|> > one w/o the www to the one with?
|>
|> A webpage is using TCP (port 80). The ping is using ICMP. The protocols
|> are different. Many admins setup firewalls for ICMP echos (request and/or
|> response).
|>
|> What is the unix trace route command?
|>
|> An IP packet has a time-to--live counter. It decreases by one each time it
|> is routed. So when an IP packet goes from router to router, it decreases.
|>
|> traceroute sets it to one.
|>
|> Then attempts to do three UDP port 33434 probes of the destination. But
|> since the TTL is at one, the router doesn't route it and just responds
|> saying that the time has exceeded. Then traceroute prints the name of the
|> host, the TTL used and how much time it took for each probe.
|>
|> Then traceroute tries with the TTL set to two. And so on (repeat previous
|> paragraph).
|>


have you ever used nmap ... its got alotta features and you can check if ports
are open closed filtered... whatever you want...

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