Re: network mystery!!??

[Jack Craig]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 9:08 PM Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 11:22 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
>  > i had a remote friend try  traceroute to 108.220.213.121 to show the
>  > trace stopping at 108.90.204.76.
>  >
>  > i dont know why it stops short of my server???
>
>  Things only respond to pings if allowed to.  Thanks to continual
>  hacking attempts, many admins turn off features they don't need, or
>  feel that someone else may exploit.
>
>  Pings (as things like traceroute generally use) only prove that
>  something responds to pings, they don't prove whether HTTP access to a
>  webserver works or not.  Likewise for any other service running.
>
>  Your ISP may be ignoring pings, many other services in between, and
>  even your own router.
>  
but why can  i traceroute up to my side of the me<-->isp lan segment??

the att rtr knows of the public ip, why doesnt it get used? the mystery so
far.

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