Sujet : Pingable, But No Route To Host De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro) Groupes :comp.misc Date : 24. Feb 2025, 08:53:39 Autres entêtes Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID :<vph8i2$vs13$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent : Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk)
Observed some interesting behaviour with a local online service: the domain name is pingable, but any attempt to actually connect returns “no route to host”.
Looks like the ping service is being provided by a separate mechanism to the actual host itself. What kind of server infrastructure would tell porkies like that? No doubt this is characteristic of some well-known cloud service ...