[CentOS] internet connection tester script
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.comFri Jan 28 12:19:06 UTC 2011
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On 01/28/11 3:28 AM, kellyremo wrote: > bix.hu and www.yahoo.com are "pingable" test sites. > 127.0.0.1 could not be pinged [firewall drops all icmp] what sort of firewall drops packets on localhost ?!? yahoo.com is probably a poor choice of targets, as its a widely distributed group of servers, and you likely will be pinging different servers at different times, maybe even in different parts of the world. I would instead suggest using a target at your ISP or backbone provider. btw, dropping 'all icmp' is bad practice. Internet Control Message Protocol is used for a number of things, including informing applications when a host or port is not accessible. if you drop this, you instead hang for minutes waiting for a response instead of quickly getting back a 'target {host|port} not reachable' error. anyways, if you drop all ICMP, you won't get any pings from anywheres.
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