Answers to: I can ping google/yahoo and others, but not msn?

Answer by Grant 1

Grant 1 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:00:42 -0400

Do you ever get this resolved? I just installed a Qwest DSL modem, and I have the same problem. Msn.com won't load. My traceroute stops at the same hop as yours. I've tried other ISPs, and they connect fine. My next step is to contact Qwest over it.

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Answer by gjcwilliams

gjcwilliams — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:05:04 -0400

It should be noted that ping uses ICMP echo requests (Type 8). By default the Linux implementation of traceroute uses UDP packets not ICMP.

traceroute www.msn.com

If you specify the "-I" flag it forces traceroute to use ICMP

traceroute -I www.msn.com

In this instance it would appear www.msn.com is blocking both ICMP/UDP.

If you install 'tcptraceroute' which traces using TCP ports and trace to port 80 (http) because this is a webserver the trace should be successfull.

tcptraceroute www.msn.com 80

Also note that '/etc/resolve.conf' is used for DNS resolution. Since your client is successfully able to convert www.msn.com to ip address 65.55.17.27 shows this is working as expected.

Answer by Ron

Ron — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:59:46 -0400

10 58 ms 58 ms 59 ms ge-2-0-0-0.co1-64c-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.43.178] 11 57 ms 58 ms 57 ms 10.22.8.185 12 57 ms 58 ms 57 ms 10.22.8.6 13 * * * Request timed out 14 * * * Request timed out

It's not you or your ISP. It's the fact that Microsoft blocks ICMP I believe.

Answer by Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:29:29 -0400

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.

Answer by jeff mcd

jeff mcd — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:45:01 -0400

so whats the problem? msn=microsoft=EVIL

Answer by Web31337

Web31337 — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:57:55 -0400

no it's because it doesn't respond to pings. tested from multiple locations.