i can access a website but cant ping it :S

[west-wot]

i can access a website and it works all fine but cant ping it, why is this :S

 

[west-wot]

when i ping it i get a request time out message

 

[Dano]

Server set to ignore ping requests I'd imagine.

 

[west-wot]

any way around this ?

 

[Crowze]

Perhaps the server is set to respond to HTTP requests, but not ICMP pings.

Edit: Doh, double-instaposted. Depends why you are doing this - if you're trying to determine whether a site is running or not, best to send a HTTP request and check for a valid response code.

 

[west-wot]

tbh i was wondering why it wouldnt respond i thought there was a problem there, sorry if its a noob question but am only learning about this stuff now in uni

 

[Gigi]

Microsoft.com deny ping requests

 

[asim18]

Microsoft.com deny ping requests

So do OcUK

 

[J.B]

Its quite common in my experience

As long as Google keep accepting pings so I wont have to learn a new set of IP addresses Im fine!

 

[Aod]

blocking ICMP Pings is incredibly common.

hackers can use ICMP pings to determine whether an IP has an active host on the end of it before they start hacking, as well as using ICMP pings for DDoS attacks and so on and so forth.

 

[demonix]

hackers can use ICMP pings to determine whether an IP has an active host on the end of it before they start hacking

Which is most likely why you can't ping any virgin media IP address.

 

[theheyes]

If you like this kind of stuff the official nmap book is really good. Might be a bit heavy though if you're just starting.

 

[ecksmen]

Which is most likely why you can't ping any virgin media IP address.

My VM subnet is fully pingable - I have to drop the packets on my firewall. Actually, all of the subnets I've been on for VM over the last 10 years have been ICMP enabled.

 

[brainchylde]

IF you are at work... then working the other way around, we don't allow users to ping out at our place (unless you are in a certain subnet).