Bug 154625

Summary:	can't ping yahoo as described
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Boyce <ancientt>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Boyce 2006-11-09 18:48:22 UTC

Yahoo sometimes cannot be pinged but is used as an example in the installation handbook. A simple solution would be to pick a more likely candidate for pinging and change that reference.

Candidates might include:
google.com
sourceforge.net

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-09 20:49:59 UTC

I booted with various installation media, and had no problem reaching yahoo. I've been using Gentoo since 2004.3, and I've never had a problem pinging any site . . . as long as I remembered to properly copy resolv.conf *before* chrooting.

Heh, sourceforge is a very bad idea, as their site is known for constantly being down, slow, and buggy. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Comment 2 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-09 23:44:07 UTC

Josh, I think the reporter's issue is that some Yahoo's servers don't reply to ICMP echo requests. That has nothing to do with Gentoo installation media...

Comment 3 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-10 03:13:05 UTC

All yahoo.com servers responded to pings today. Maybe some of their servers do not respond, maybe.... Who knows? It's most likely a local problem, but, anyway, let's just ping www.gentoo.org.
FYI, a very very long time ago, when swift wrote that bit, www.g.o did not respond to pings.