cant ping website

[NoOp]

On 06/19/2008 05:57 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:46 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> Or a router set to not respond to pings... which is quite common  
>> these days.
> 
> Er... Not really. If it could resolve the host name, but a router or  
> destination address is dropping the ICMP packets, you wouldn't see the  
> 'unknown host' error message. Likely, you'd see something like this:
> 
> $ ping someserver.com
> PING someserver.com (192.168.1.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 
> And then it would just hang while the packets are dropped.
> 
> My point was that you might see that 'unknown host' message as a  
> result of not being able to communicate with the DNS servers, which  
> could ultimately be caused by a number of connectivity issues.

You're right. I overlooked the 'unknown host' msg.