On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:07:16AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Andy Smith wrote: > > >What happens if you try to ping something? Like: > > It is the ping failures that give me the most angst [...]
> I was also interested to note that linode returned pings in ipv6 > mode. Switching to 'ping -4' ended any return of pings from linode. > That was the sort of thing that made me think my "networking" was > "not working." FWIW, godaddy responds to pings (v4) here. One possible explanation is that you're sitting behind of a firewall (yours or your ISP's) which throws away (v4) ICMPs [1] -- so your pings possibly get out there, but the responses never arrive back. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol -- t
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