ping question

[pcchong]

I am not sure whether this is the right newsgroup for my question.

I sent out a ping request to my web site www.pcchong.com and received
response " Request timed out". What does that mean? please. Thanks.


pcchong

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Normally it means that your Internet connection is able to reach the web site in question. To determine where the problem is use
tracert pcchong.com

 

[Jacque® Dupre©]

You new users may not know - but the FCC and other federal agencies continue
to warn about web sites in Russia and China running Windows scripts on your
web pages when you browse them which download your private info or install
background spybots which send your identity theft info to those web sites in
Russia and China which are beyond the reach of the FBI and other law
enforcement.

You all know if this Chinese guy was smart enough to use and send a ping
then he is smart enough to know how it works.

It is free to be aware and informed.

 

[Lesa Motz]

pcchong might be a lady rather than a gentleman

pcchong might be a US citizen who lives in Maine, or an afficianado of
Chinese culture, or a Spanish person from Barcelona.or a school teacher in
Peking,

I, personally, pinged for the first time last week when following the
instructions in a MSKB article. It wasn't difficult to do, but I,
personally, would also not know how to interpret the ping response which
pcchong received.

Although I'm not technically advanced, I have Webroot Spy Sweeper installed
on my computer.

Just expressing another viewpoint....

Lesa Motz

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

With a name like; Pan Cheong Chong, and an address in Singapore...I doubt that he is Spanish, or living in Maine.


| pcchong might be a lady rather than a gentleman
|
| pcchong might be a US citizen who lives in Maine, or an afficianado of
| Chinese culture, or a Spanish person from Barcelona.or a school teacher in
| Peking,
|
| I, personally, pinged for the first time last week when following the
| instructions in a MSKB article. It wasn't difficult to do, but I,
| personally, would also not know how to interpret the ping response which
| pcchong received.
|
| Although I'm not technically advanced, I have Webroot Spy Sweeper installed
| on my computer.
|
| Just expressing another viewpoint....
|
| Lesa Motz
|
| | > You new users may not know - but the FCC and other federal agencies
| continue
| > to warn about web sites in Russia and China running Windows scripts on
| your
| > web pages when you browse them which download your private info or install
| > background spybots which send your identity theft info to those web sites
| in
| > Russia and China which are beyond the reach of the FBI and other law
| > enforcement.
| >
| > You all know if this Chinese guy was smart enough to use and send a ping
| > then he is smart enough to know how it works.
| >
| > It is free to be aware and informed.
| >
| >
|
|
|

 

[Steve Easton]

It probably means that your hosting companies' server administrator has set the server to *not*
acknowledge ping requests.
Ping requests are one of the ways denial of service attacks are done. If a server is set to deny
pings it is less prone to attack.

Even though a server is set to deny a ping request, it will however respond properly to a http
request and serve the site.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Craig Schiller]

I suspect you were typing fast and accidentally left out a word.

Normally it means that the Internet connection is NOT able to reach the website in question.

Craig

 

[Jacque® Dupre©]

Other viewpoints are fine from Cincinnati, Ohio

Just expressing another viewpoint....from New Orleans

 

[Mike Mueller]

All that means is that the ping command could not get
through to the website. A RTO response means the address is
viable, but unreachable. The site is probably behind a
firewall which is blocking port 1723 (? I think this is the
correct port that ping uses). Browsers by default use port
80 for the HTTP protocal.

Mike


:I am not sure whether this is the right newsgroup for my
question.
:
: I sent out a ping request to my web site www.pcchong.com
and received
: response " Request timed out". What does that mean?
please. Thanks.
:
:
: pcchong
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