Thanks to Russell for doing my legwork.
Mea culpa, I never thought to check to see if sgi had turned off pings.
They apparently have (bummer).
Sorry for the noise,
--lm
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:41:19 +0000
From: Russell King <[email protected]>
To: Larry McVoy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: connectivity to bkbits.net?
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:25:50AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> We've been having problems getting out to certain parts of the net for the
> last few days, in particular, we can't get to sgi.com which is unusual.
> If you are having problems getting to bkbits.net, let me know. We have
> a couple of machines at rackspace and I can push repos over there.
I think you're hitting their firewall. If I traceroute to the same
address, it stops at the same place. However, telnet sgi.com 80
"GET /" connects and returns data, so it is reachable.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, telnetting to the http port seems to
be a better test of connectivity than traceroute ever was.
--
Russell King ([email protected]) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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