frankhunt wrote: > Rich, > The ping response simply indicates that the network is up. The server > could be running just fine but the site might be down/turned off/whatever. > > fh > > On 06/14/2011 06:27 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Just to satisfy my curiosity, what might cause a web page to not load in >> firefox while I can successfully ping the URL? >> >> The site will probably become available later today, but if it's not >> responding to the browser requests I'm surprised it acknowledges the pings. >> >> Rich >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> > Rich,
Ping is on an ICMP port. The webserver is probably looking on port 80 or 443, if it is up at all. You could interrogate the 80 port to see if the site is answering with telnet <site> 80. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
