Sent from my iPad 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 >> somewhere on the middle of the left coast >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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.