[GRLUG] question about ping

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 14:29 -0500, Bill Littlejohn wrote:
> When I ping some non-existent IP addresses I get Destination Host
> Unreachable, and some others return nothing.
> What's actually the difference?

I'd assume that ones that return nothing you are possibly hitting a node
[or gateway] that discards the ICMP request.  "Destination Host
Unreachable" is the normal failure for ICMP ping requests.



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