On 25 Feb 2016 00:30, "John Cenile" <jcenile1983 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks all, that seemed to be the problem (the suid bit). :) Well if you really want to call it a problem... Blocking ICMP via a host based firewall remains pretty silly. Bear in mind that since it's a file permission this will be 'fixed' on any update of ping. Not that ping gets many updates but there you go... I'm still curious as to why this was a requirement.