I can ping the web.
edmond_melkomian@yahoo.com (edmondme) wrote in message news:<90d66e0c.0403021517.60fb0e1@posting.google.com>...
> I am trying to get to certain web sites and I cant. (they are not
> offensive sites at all, one infact is a restaurant in SF,
> www.novabar.com).
> I tried to ping the sites, and the request times out. When I run a
> trace route (tracert), I see that the request leaves my firewall, and
> then goes into the qwest site, which we are connected to and then
> traverses to verio or wiltel network and then it dies there.
> (Sometimes verio, others wiltel)
> I contacted verio and they ran some traces, but couldn't find
> anything. Infact the sites can be pinged from the qwest looking glass.
> Is there any explanation for this? Is there a way to block pinging the
> site and has anyone heard that it would die within the ISP?
> This problem started happening last week, and no one on our network
> can understand this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Edmond M.