From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 14:21:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B1116A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:21:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C4C43D48 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:21:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1695FBA1E for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:21:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87607-09 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:21:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (outbound.daycos.com [204.26.70.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40E9B9A8 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:21:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:21:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040621005632.5241.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040621005632.5241.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406210921.13801.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: ping command question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:21:34 -0000 On Sunday 2004-06-20 07:56 pm, adrian kok wrote: > I start from one ISP to ping other ISP That's *probably* the answer. The machine returning those pings may not be the one you think. For instance, if one of the machines is behind a NAT gateway, then the gateway may be returning the pings and not the host you think you're pinging. -- Kirk Strauser