Answers to: I can ping google/yahoo and others, but not msn?http://linuxexchange.org/questions/429/i-can-ping-googleyahoo-and-others-but-not-msn<p>Greetings -</p> <p>I'm running slackware 64/13.0 and recently setup my wireless card and it's working fine, until I tried to ping or connecg with msn. msn is my isp. I've got DSL and my /etc/resolve.conf file's got the following in it:</p> <p>nameserver 205.171.2.65 nameserver 205.171.3.65</p> <p>Here's the traceroute. Anybody know why I'm having problems with msn? It's my isp?</p> <p>traceroute www.msn.com traceroute to www.msn.com (65.55.17.27), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 dslmodem.domain.actdsltmp (192.168.0.1) 2.099 ms 2.109 ms 1.676 ms 2 blng-dsl-gw04-196.blng.qwest.net (67.42.227.196) 33.818 ms 33.056 ms 33.920 ms 3 blng-agw1.inet.qwest.net (67.42.227.93) 34.066 ms 34.888 ms 33.902 ms 4 bil-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.154.73) 34.163 ms 33.426 ms 34.503 ms 5 tuk-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.5.142) 52.765 ms 51.959 ms 51.698 ms 6 sea-edge-12.inet.qwest.net (67.14.4.210) 52.391 ms 53.463 ms 52.201 ms 7 63-234-17-26.dia.static.qwest.net (63.234.17.26) 53.086 ms 52.442 ms 52.512 ms 8 ge-7-3-0-58.wst-64cb-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.46.41) 52.493 ms 53.033 ms 52.700 ms 9 ge-3-3-0-0.co2-64c-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.43.194) 58.055 ms 57.948 ms 57.868 ms 10 ge-7-0-0-0.co2-64c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.43.197) 57.966 ms 57.474 ms 57.208 ms 11 ge-6-0-0-0.co1-64c-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.46.92) 57.062 ms 57.509 ms 56.645 ms 12 10.22.8.177 (10.22.8.177) 57.235 ms 57.230 ms 57.064 ms 13 10.22.8.2 (10.22.8.2) 56.980 ms 57.233 ms 56.398 ms</p>enThu, 13 May 2010 04:19:15 -0400Answer by jeremyhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/429/i-can-ping-googleyahoo-and-others-but-not-msn/547<p><a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-beads-c-27_657_42.html" rel="nofollow" title="Pandora beads">Pandora beads</a> <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-beads-c-27_657_42.html" rel="nofollow" title="Pandora beads wholesale">Pandora beads wholesale</a> <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-beads-c-27_657_42.html" rel="nofollow" title="Discount pandora beads">Discount pandora beads</a> <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-beads-c-27_657_42.html" rel="nofollow" title="Discount pandora jewelry">Discount pandora jewelry</a></p> <ul> <li>Chamilia beads <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-troll-beads-c-27_657.html" rel="nofollow" title="European beads">European beads</a> <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-troll-beads-c-27_657.html" rel="nofollow" title="Chamilia beads">Chamilia beads</a> <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-troll-beads-c-27_657.html" rel="nofollow" title="Troll beads">Troll beads</a> <a href="http://www.hydiapearl.com/pandora-troll-beads-c-27_657.html" rel="nofollow" title="Biagi beads">Biagi beads</a></li> </ul>jeremyThu, 13 May 2010 04:19:15 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/429/i-can-ping-googleyahoo-and-others-but-not-msn/547Answer by Brandonhttp://linuxexchange.org/questions/429/i-can-ping-googleyahoo-and-others-but-not-msn/492<p>Ping uses ICMP echo and echo -reply packets ... some sites specifically block pings. Firewalls tend to be configured to block everything and only allow the desired traffic.</p>BrandonTue, 11 May 2010 23:29:29 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/429/i-can-ping-googleyahoo-and-others-but-not-msn/492