[KLUG Members] webmail saga continues! story at 11...

[manish chacko]

Mark,
To my knowledge, you cannot ping www.hotmail.com from most places- It is not your network, but hotmail's that prevents u from pinging it. I can browse the site but when I try pinging, I get a request timed out. Interestingly, a tracert with the hotmail.com IP address times out just before it reaches the hotmail server. Does anybody else have any comments/explanations? I mean is there some kind of Ping Cop software available? I would love to hear what ol'e Bill is upto now ;)

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Manish Chacko
Network/Systems Administrator,
BIS Dept, Haworth Coll Of Business,
Western Michigan University.


--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Mon,  9 Jun 2003 18:02:45
From: Mark Tarquini <mark@iametarq.com>
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Cc: 

>My saga of the unworking webmail applications continues.  However, today, I made
>a strange discovery.
>
>I cannot ping www.hotmail.com from ANY computer at my work place.  We all use a
>proxy for our browers.
>
>I cannot ping www.hotmail.com from the IPcop Box.
>
>I can ping www.google.com from any computer and IPcop and IPcop Client boxes...
>
>What kind of setup would our network have that would block me from pinging
>www.hotmail.com but make my browers be able to view www.hotmail.com?
>
>But then any client that is behind my IPcop box are NOT be able to browse to
>www.hotmail.com?
>
>I'm completely stumped. =/
>
>also thank you very, very, very, very much for all of you have been sending me
>countless emails with tips, explanations, etc, etc.
>
>-Mark Tarquini
>-- 
>"And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - 
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>mark@iametarq.com
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>-- 
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>Friedrich Nietzsche
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>  www.iametarq.com
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