Ping command!

Hi

Just tried this to see what I would get. I put in an random addres (24.*.*.*, I know my ISP is in 24.*). I got 1 timeout and 3 destination host unreachable.

If you are receiving and sending mail, there is no need to ping. To keep trafficoff the system they may have removed or restricted PING on that system. It is more important that you can send and receive mail. If you want to check, send a message to yourself. If you have a second mail account (work or another ISP), send with that. Send to that account and reply. If all that works Mail is happy whether or not you can ping.

"Requet Timed Out" is a general error. When doing network tasks, rather than sending a message and waiting forever (hung process), most send and wait for a specified amount of time (usually much longer than a response is expected). In many casses, this is repeated several times prior to reporting the timeout message. The time out could be due to the system being down, heavy traffic, loaded intervening nodes, etc. If it persists on a node/system contact your ISP or support on the target and see if they have same/similar.

lo

The most possible screnario is that your POP privider simply restricted Ping command. that means the server will not respond to ping.
It's easy to acheave on any OS.
This may be done to reduce risck of attack by a hacker, because in order to attac a computer you first make sure that it's there and you use Ping. Not is address times out, some people would think that there is no computer there.

In any case it doesn't harm the communications anyhow.

Regards,
Victor