Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Kevin Wilson sent:
Hello,
I try:
ping -R
www.google.com
I get:
PING
www.google.com (173.194.113.112) 56(124) bytes of data.
but the list of nodes does not appear, and I wait for more than 5 minutes.
Things do not *have* to respond to pings, so a ping can only test how it
responds to pings, rather than be a definitive test of being able to
reach something.
When you're accessible to the world, and every byte costs you money, you
may decide to disable all but the essential traffic.
traceroute
www.google.com gives immediately the list of nodes.
I seem to recall traceroute does, or can, use a different protocol.
Read the manuals.
Could it be somehow due to not flushing firewalld rules ? (I
don't
know much about firewalld)
Unless you've made special rules, Fedora tends to allow this sort of
traffic.
I get a different IP responding to
www.google.com, there are some
responses to pings, and to some of the hops along the route.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.