[CentOS] Unable to ping google... but can ping bing...

[Joseph Spenner]

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On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:59 PM, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote:

> How would I get around this?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:21 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/6/2013 3:46 PM, Yves S. Garret wrote:
>>> Hello all, this is what happens when I attempt to ping both search
>> engines:
>>> http://bin.cakephp.org/view/168484871
>> 
>> that just means someone is blocking ICMP 'echo request' at a router (or
>> the host itself).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> john r pierce                                      37N 122W
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Depends on your goal/purpose.   Are you pinging google just to verify Internet connectivity?  If so, ping something pingable.
If you really want to know if google is reachable, do a tcp/80 connect to it.