"destination net reachable" when pinging

Huh?

[hannamyluv]

I had no clue where to put this.

I am pinging a site and I am getting a message that reads "destination net reachable" (yes "net" not "not"). It shows the packets recieved (none lost) but has the roundtrip time at 0.

What does this mean? I searched the web and found a total of 4 sites that mention this and none were helpful.

[Leosghost]

sounds like you are pinging your own LAN..
which you obviously aren't :).. but ...that would be the scenario ..

I only found one mention of this ( but geo targetting by SE's makes the tubes like a glass of water to a zen master anyway ) ..the link is a forum so cant post it here ..check your sticky ..it more or less seems to be what I mentioned ..only more esotheric :)

[edited by: Leosghost at 9:56 pm (utc) on Jan. 5, 2007]

[hannamyluv]

hehehe. That is very possible (or is that possible?). I know nothing about servers. But still, it would be nice to know if that was the case.

[physics]

I don't know about the LAN thing... if I try (on my Mac OS X box)
ping localhost
I don't get that sort of response ... just normal ping stats.

[Leosghost]

I though mac's communicated like dolphins and whales and turtles in nemo ..sort of

..Yo! ...Yeah? ..Ok dude ..thats gnarly!:))