Re: ping failes but sites up

["David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com>]

Glynn --
As always thanks for you reply.
This is interesting, ping of www.jimintriglia.com
returns: 208.244.174.17,But if we browse to that IP it takes us to a home page for the "server" and not the website of my business associate? Richard commented earler that reverse lookup failes?

I got a email from about named vs IP, and he said
ping failed because of their firewall?

Other question are their any side effects of using
name bases vs. IP based virtual hosting?


Thanks again,
David Jackson




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
Date: 	Fri, 17 May 2002 12:59:01 +0100

>
>David Jackson wrote:
>
>> This is kind of odd, I can get to freinds site,
>> http://www.jimintriglia, but ping hangs at the first hope, needless
>> to say were talking virtual hosting.
>
>Many networks disallow inbound ICMP echo requests.
>
>> Related is there any why to tell wheather a site
>> is namebase or IP vitural host?
>
>Resolve the hostname to an IP address, then access "http://x.x.x.x/". 
>If you get the same results as when using the hostname, then it's IP
>based.
>
>-- 
>Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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