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I cannot ping the Hughes DNS servers. What is wrong?

April 26, 2017DNS Hughes ping servers wrong

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I cannot ping the Hughes DNS servers. What is wrong?

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The Hughes DNS servers sometimes ignore ping, but are functioning normally. Hughes has disabled ping responses on these servers to protect against Denial-of-Service attacks.

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The Hughes DNS servers sometimes ignore ping, but are functioning normally. Hughes has disabled ping responses on these servers to protect against Denial-of-Service attacks. To test the function of your DNS server, please see section 4.4 of the troubleshooting guide.