Timeline for Why can I traceroute to this IP address, but not ping?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 8:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 14, 2020 at 11:11 | history | edited | naïveRSA | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen |
@naïveRSA Strictly speaking, traceroute is using ICMP, even if it is sending UDP, namely it expects and evaluates TTL exceeded messages from the hops on the way. A host that blocks all ICMP is a bad idea, but ping will aready fail when ICMP echo requests or replies are blocked at the target host
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| Jun 6, 2019 at 15:03 | comment | added | Keeta - reinstate Monica | Rather than add a new comment to your post when someone like 244boy suggests an improvement, it would be better to edit your post so that future people reading the answer don't have to read all the comments to get the full answer. | |
| S Jun 6, 2019 at 8:22 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited. Removed unnecessary content from the quote.
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| Jun 5, 2019 at 9:25 | comment | added | 244boy | so, why my server IP can traceroute but not ping? | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 8:04 | history | answered | naïveRSA | CC BY-SA 4.0 |