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Originally posted by evulish
well...usfirst.org isn't in any DNS records (available to outsiders.) So you need to ping www.usfirst.org or newton.usfirst.org.
For some reason, there is still no ping response (even though their servers are obviously...) Not sure why pings would be blocked...Possibly to limit DOS attacks.
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Blocking ICMP packets (ping) is actually a pretty common practice. If you are using DSL, and if you are cursed with PPPoE (Point-To-Point Protocol over Ethernet) make sure your MTU is set to a sane value... 1490 ought to do it.