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• I agree with coreythrower. Not being able to ping an IP address does not mean much; you have to take it for what it's worth. If I'm the hosting company, I want as little information about my network being available to the general public. Something as simple as ping is sometimes too much.. From my experience with ISP's, the ISP's do not block outgoing ports, only incoming ports. Let's say for example, I have a Verizon DSL account and I want to host a web server at my house, Verizon wants you to pay for their upgraded service. If you are trying to VNC into another network and can't, more than likely, the router on the hosts end needs to be configured to allow this type of connection, which is beyond the scope of this post and ISP customer support. Unfortunately, you have to find someone who knows how to configure networks to get this corrected. P.S to the owner of this post, if traceroute gets out to the internet and stops at the router of the other network, your problem is with the other network. Networks are fun, but complicated. In reply to: "Verizon DSL is blocking outbound traffic"

  August 4, 2008

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