Allegedly, on or about 11 December 2018, Joe Zeff sent:
If you can't ping someplace, traceroute will show you where the
problem is, because it will stop getting responses.
Though you still have to think about it (it's only part of a
diagnosis). That failure just means the device doesn't respond to
that type of probing. There's plenty of otherwise fully functional
things that ignore pings and other probing.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
the messages posted to the mailing list.
Using Windows software is like coating all your handtools with sewage.