"ping" doesn't use proxies. Again, you're blocked by the proxy server on purpose. Put in another way, you have to provide a router to do that. Not a proxy server. On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:51 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: > On 2012/03/04 18:44, Peter Larsen wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:28 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Sorry - newbie to fedora, and google is driving me mad ! > >> > >> I've just setup up a F17alpha box, and am trying to ping the internet > >> from behind my Ubuntu proxy server, which also runs bind. > >> > >> I have set GATEWAY in /etc/sysconfig/network > >> I have put nameserver 192.168.0.1 into /etc/resolv.conf > >> I have done a export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:3128 > >> > >> I have done a /etc/init.d/network restart > >> > >> and I still cannot ping by IP nor by dnsalias name > > Ping what?? > anything that starts with www. > Even if I get their IP address and ping with the IP address, it still > times out. > > You won't be able to ping outside your proxy at all unless you allow > > your hosts to bypass the proxy (which would sorta elliminate the idea of > > the proxy in the first place). > > > > What IP and network did you give your fedora box? Setting up the proxy > 192.168.0.143 > > cannot be done until you have basic networking up. In other words, based > > on the above, your fedora box need to have an address in 192.168.0.x - > > and it needs to then be connected to a hub/switch that allows access to > > 192.168.0.1. Once done, you test with ping to 192.168.0.1. There's a > > chance you run with a "angry" firewall on 192.168.0.1 which could be > > blocking your pings, but if you say you can ping it from other hosts, > > that's obviously not the case. > yes, and I put an ALLOW in the squid ACL for that IP address. Firefox > works from this F17a box. > Anything from the CLI fails. > > > >> but this all works from other ubuntu boxes, and of course from the > >> server machine itself. > >> I can also ping all the PCs on my internal network. > > That includes the proxy server? If so, everything is working according > > to the setup. > yes > > > >> Please can someone tell me my deliberate mistake in this regard. > > Proxy servers blocks you from direct access to the outside network. It's > > why proxy servers are mostly used - to deny direct access to the > > workstations. That means pings too. > correct, but I have a working ACL for this IP address. > > > > > >> TIA, > >> Zoltan > >> -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing
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