Cannot ping outside university

[David]

Erm, well yeah. How much of a security issue could that be then?

Dave 
      

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:47:55AM +0100, James Tappin wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:10:55 +0100
> David <dpleydel at univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> 
> D> About fie weeks ago I installed Dapper on a Dell Inspiron 6000
> D> laptop. Everything was going great, I configured the eth0 interface
> D> to get onto the university network and I could connect to Ubuntu
> D> repositories and I downloaded various software eg. GRASS, R etc.
> D> 
> D> Then some days later I lost the internet connection. I do not know
> D> why. I can still ping my PC and the PC can still ping the laptop. But
> D> the laptop cannot ping websites or repos.
> D> 
> D> To make matters worse, we need this sorted within the next 24 hours!
> D> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Can you ping outside from other boxes? Certainly here the University
> firewall stops all ping packets both ways.
> 
> James
> 
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