[[email protected]: Re: connectivity to bkbits.net?]
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
----- Forwarded message from Russell King <[email protected]> -----
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?
Quoted 4 lines · Larry McVoy
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.
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Russell King ([email protected]) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm