A systems administrator is experiencing local network connectivity issues. The administrator gathers the following outputs: Which of the following conclusions can the systems administrator make?

The correct answer is C. The remote server is blocking ICMP requests. The ping test shows 100% packet loss, indicating that ICMP echo requests are not being answered, while the HTTP request successfully reaches the server and returns a response. This confirms that the remote server is reachable but is configured to block ICMP requests.

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Question

A systems administrator is experiencing local network connectivity issues. The administrator gathers the following outputs:

Which of the following conclusions can the systems administrator make?

Exhibit

Options

AThe remote server is denying TCP traffic on port 8.
BThe web server must be restarted
CThe remote server is blocking ICMP requests.
DThe remote server is configured to only use IPv6.

How the community answered

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A
5% (2)
B
5% (2)
C
77% (30)
D
13% (5)

Explanation

The ping test shows 100% packet loss, indicating that ICMP echo requests are not being answered, while the HTTP request successfully reaches the server and returns a response. This confirms that the remote server is reachable but is configured to block ICMP requests.

Topics

#ICMP#ping#network connectivity#firewall rules

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