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wilmore

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2014-01-05

Posts: 2

Internet works except for ping

I have a strange problem that has left me completely baffled: my Internet connection mostly works (browser, email), but I cannot ping anywhere; when I try to ping, it simply times out:

# ping -c 3 google.com
PING google.com (83.94.121.177) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms

My computer is behind a home router, but my laptop (with a very similar arch installation) can ping fine behind the same router. I can't even ping the router itself, while the laptop can. It doesn't seem to be related to a firewall installation; the iptables rules are empty. I can't ping as root nor as a normal user. DNS lookup also works fine, pinging with an explicit IP address doesn't help. Everything else works fine except one thing that might be related: I also cannot ssh into my VPS (the connection also times out, and again the VPS is fine since the laptop can connect), although I can ssh into other servers I have access to.

I'm completely out of ideas, can anyone think of something?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,354

Re: Internet works except for ping

Can you ping localhost?  Can you ping the router?

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wilmore

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2014-01-05

Posts: 2

Re: Internet works except for ping

I can ping localhost, but not the router.