[NBLUG/talk] I think I broke my ping!

[Dave Sisley]

Thanks for the tests (I'm not sure I understand them, though).

You are correct:  I beleive my ISP assigns me an address 
dynamically when I log in.  Is there a way to fix this?

Here's what I get when I run route:

[dsisley at jupiter dsisley]$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
sjcsbc20.o1.com *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 lo
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         sjcsbc20.o1.com 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0



Now I ping on the Destination address:

[dsisley at jupiter dsisley]$ ping sjcsbc20.o1.com
PING sjcsbc20.o1.com (66.81.235.219) 56(84) bytes of data.
 
--- sjcsbc20.o1.com ping statistics ---
30 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 28999ms
 
-dave.