Request Timed Out. when doing pinging myself

[Bleda412]

Hi,

Not trying to dos myself or anyone. A friend was talking to me about using cmd for to test ping and loss. I ping myself, but then I get Request timed out. I have looked on the internet, but there is not much help on this subject that I can find. I enable ICV-4, or something, but that hasn't fixed it.

[mclarence]

Try pinging localhost

[Bleda412]

Just now, mclarence said:

Try pinging localhost

Ty, it works. How come I can't do it the way that I have seen in videos and how my friend has told me?

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Bleda412 said:

Ty, it works. How come I can't do it the way that I have seen in videos and how my friend has told me?

maybe your isp blocks things like these to prevent ddos?

[LAwLz]

What command did you use when you tried to ping yourself? If it was an IP you used, are you sure it was actually yours? 

[mclarence]

3 hours ago, Bleda412 said:

Ty, it works. How come I can't do it the way that I have seen in videos and how my friend has told me?

Pinging localhost pings your computer ONLY. 

I believe when you attempted to ping yourself before I told you to ping localhost, you were using an IP address that did not exist or using the wrong one. In order for the ping to "reply", you must ping an ip address on the network which exists. 

 

[brwainer]

4 hours ago, mclarence said:

Pinging localhost pings your computer ONLY. 

I believe when you attempted to ping yourself before I told you to ping localhost, you were using an IP address that did not exist or using the wrong one. In order for the ping to "reply", you must ping an ip address on the network which exists. 

 

Clarification: You must ping an address that both exists and is reachable to you (sort of a catch-22 because ping is often used to test reachability) and is configured to reply in order to get any response. So anything on your local network (the addresses assigned by your router) (some devices don't respond, including Windows computers with the firewall in the default setting which is to block pings), certain devices in your ISPs network, and lots of addresses on the internet.