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why can't ping the host?

Posted on August 30, 2013

hi, today I can’t ping my host 192.241.213.63, why? I try to reboot the droplet, after restart, Droplet History show

  1. Power Cycle
  2. Vnc Disable but the question is still, why ?


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I just pinged it. <br> <br>Pinging 192.241.213.63 with 32 bytes of data: <br>Reply from 192.241.213.63: bytes=32 time=197ms TTL=48 <br>Reply from 192.241.213.63: bytes=32 time=192ms TTL=48 <br>Reply from 192.241.213.63: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=48 <br>Reply from 192.241.213.63: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=48 <br> <br>Ping statistics for 192.241.213.63: <br> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), <br>Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: <br> Minimum = 192ms, Maximum = 197ms, Average = 195ms

192.241.213.63 is pingable. <br> <br>PING 192.241.213.63 (192.241.213.63): 56 data bytes <br>64 bytes from 192.241.213.63: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=231.448 ms <br> <br>— 192.241.213.63 ping statistics — <br>1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss <br>round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 231.448/231.448/231.448/0.000 ms

I was able to ping it, as well. Are you behind a firewall? Are you trying to ping from a Windows or *nix machine? What command did you execute?

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