traceroute works - ping doesn't

[chip.wiegand at simrad.com]

Appears the remote firewall admin has made a change and didn't inform us - 
the icmp port
has been closed. I tried to install Apache earlier today, first app 
install on this particular box,
but it failed. Every server it tried to download from resulted in no 
access, not found message.
I just tried again, and it finally found a server to download from after 
trying a long list of them.
I used port_install this last time. It appears to be going okay now.
Regards,
--
Chip

owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote on 10/22/2003 12:56:10 PM:

> > so got a complete traceroute. Any idea why I can't ping but can 
> > traceroute? I am
> > unable to run make install to install ports because it doesn't 
connect.
> 
> They are using firewall (ICMP blocking).
> Are you sure with the ports? Sometimes it takes a while.
> 
> What about ftp ftp.freebsd.org?
> What is the output of this? ping a.root-servers.net
> 
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