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Old 06-02-2008, 21:10   #15
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Re: Cannot access certain website??
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Originally Posted by willas00 View Post
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\User>ping www.pcworld.co.uk

Pinging www.pcworld.co.uk [195.92.228.186] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 195.92.228.186:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\User>
Same here
This is normal, reduces impact of basic DoS attacks - why have your webserver allocate CPU time to process ICMP requests when you could be providing web pages to your customers ?
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