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Ubuntu install not responding to ping

Posted on March 14, 2014

I can ping localhost via SSH, however I can’t ping the public IP address from another machine.



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Hi, <br> <br>Trace run a trace route to the ip that is not pinging back to do this type traceroute your_ip in the ssh session that is not responding to a ping. If you get nothing back consider opening a support ticket

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