Linus,

It is not because ICMP does not reply that the server is down or having an issue :-)

Often it is blocked to avoid security risks or for other reasons... If you check www.admin.ch, it won't answer ping but will work correctly. The only way to know if the server work is to actually establish a proper connection on the port 80 / 443 and make sure you get the content of the page you expected as you expected.

This is probably a matter of software issue (anything from loadbalancer, to backend server daemon not working or any other error...).

Cheers,

Gregory

2010/6/16 Linus Wegmann <linus.wegmann@gmx.ch>

Thanks Gregory

but why is there no reply for an ICMP request?
it sounds to me like no service is running on that server....

good night to all!

Linus

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: [swinog] www.eda.admin.ch down?

From: Gregory Agerba <gregory.agerba@gmail.com>
To: Linus Wegmann <linus.wegmann@gmx.ch>
Date: 16.06.2010 01:04

Arnold meant on server side, not on your side. The server accepts the connection, so there must be some software issue on the Confederation application side.

'night

Gregory

2010/6/16 Linus Wegmann <linus.wegmann@gmx.ch <mailto:linus.wegmann@gmx.ch>>

   Hi Arnold
   thanks for your reply
   but it stilll doesn't work

   linus@tuxilap2:pts/4:~> ping www.eda.admin.ch

   <http://www.eda.admin.ch>
   PING dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch <http://dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch>

   (162.23.6.139) 56(84) bytes of data.
   ^C

   --- dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch <http://dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch> ping

   statistics ---
   16 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 14999ms

   linus@tuxilap2:pts/4:~> telnet www.eda.admin.ch

   <http://www.eda.admin.ch> 80

   Trying 162.23.6.139...

   Connected to dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch <http://dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch>.

   Escape character is '^]'.
   Connection closed by foreign host.

   what am I doing wrong?

   Linus

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