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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Host up but won't respond to pings?
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Date: 27 Nov 90 03:21:56 GMT
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	Can anybody think of any reason why a host would stop responding to
pings?  I've got a Vax-11/750 running MtXinu 4.3 BSD/NFS that's been up for
54 days and suddenly stopped responding to pings.  Everything else works; I
can telnet to and from it, nntp, smtp, nfs, rlogin, etc, all seem to be
working fine.  It just won't answer pings.  I can ping other hosts from it,
but I can't ping it.  Even attempts to ping localhost fail.  Spooky.

	This happened once before, a year or two ago.  I didn't figure it
out then either.  Anybody have any ideas?
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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