Ping return timed out

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by lightstarm2k, Sep 7, 2009.

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    I have a hosting account, I can open my website but when I use online ping via ping websites all result are "connection timed out" or "Packets lost (100%) "

    Can you explain? does this have affect to my traffic? I lost lots of visitors.


    thanks
     
    lightstarm2k, Sep 7, 2009 IP
  2. daredashi

    daredashi Well-Known Member

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    Your web hosting provider must have blocked ping traffic (icmp). this is normal and you should not worry about it. it won't affect your performance too.
    but if you want to use some monitoring tools use on http (port 80) and https (port 443)
     
    daredashi, Sep 8, 2009 IP
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    Thibaut Well-Known Member

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    daredashi is right: your provider should have rejected the icmp traffic. No worry about it.

    Regards
    Thibaut
     
    Thibaut, Sep 9, 2009 IP