[Babel-users] babel-pinger

[Michael Grant]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 07:28, Juliusz Chroboczek
<Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>> I looked at the code, in fact, it doesn't do icmp echo requests, it
>> does tcp echo requests on port 7.
>
> UDP, not TCP.
>
>> But I'm confused, why does it work for ntp but not for echo and dns?
>
> I've just checked, and it works for me.  Perhaps you have some weird
> firewall setup?
>
>> The code is very simple,
>
> Yes, simplicity of implementation is the main reason I avoided ICMP.

Ok, it was a firewall problem and it wasn't even a weird setup!  Thanks.

Michael