unable to access website

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

PING is the most unreliable way to determine if a host is up these
days.  Because many idiot netadmins block all icmp.  Thus breaking
many things (path mtu discovery being one of them).  I wouldn't use
ping to determine if a remote host was up.  I personally can reach
hushmail just fine.  Try telnet'ing to port 80 on that system, if that
doesnt work, its likely a problem on your end or somewhere along your
route.

-miah


On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:57:25AM -0400, Billy SG McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:22:43AM -0400, Eric wrote:
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> > I installed firefox.  To try to access the site with another browser.
> > It failed.  Maybe this is not related to a browser?
> 
> I just tried to ping www.hushmail.com and got no response.  I think site is
> simply down.
> 
> -- 
> "Could I have been anyone other than me?"
> --Dave Matthews Band--
> 
> Kindly yours,
> Billy SG McCarthy
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