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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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Oh, I have no doubt she would if I let her.

I have no intention of doing so.

I extricate myself rather proficiently LoL

I never even thought about all that, I just type ping: then the server I am looking to ping.

There is a lot more to it, I just take all that for granted.

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I had no idea that ping was that fucking complicated.

Biff has never tried to stab me with a steak knife. She must not love me!

She said she'll stab me with a knife if I really want her to but she'd rather not. She's remarkably sane. It's actually quite nice to be married to a chick that's not insane.

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From what I gather on the link it is basically an echo function of the ICMP which is encapsulated somehow by the IT datagram, what ever the hell that is.

I will just think of it as an echo off a targeted server

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I'm just not gonna think about it. I use ping fairly often, but I don't really need to know the details. The idea that it's its own protocol is all I need to know.

But, those are the kinds of questions I look up and the kind of questions I answer - except not that one. I did not know that about ping. I always thought it was just like every other packet (complete with syn and ack) on port 7. I had no idea it was that complex, which (I admit) is kinda why I was looking it up.

Some dude can connect every other way - except ping. I suspect they can't telnet either, but they haven't responded. It's 95% likely to be a hosts issue and the more recent Solaris deals with the hosts in two places instead of just one. Ping (and telnet) are on one and that one probably is misconfigured - but I wanted to check how ping worked first.