Ping Me

[torkell]

Ping me if you read this.

(thanks to pteppic for the idea)

Comments

[pewterfish.livejournal.com]

Covered in bees!

[torkell]

I'll take that as a "yes" then.

[shebit.livejournal.com]

*Bother*

Attention whore.

[justicefornone.livejournal.com]

*headbutts*

PING!

[torkell]

That's 2 pings, and another... *checks friends list* ...58 or thereabouts to go.

[torkell]

Ouch!

[justicefornone.livejournal.com]

BoggyB gets hit for 17hp!

[torkell]

*rolls D20

3! I fail my save and suffer horribly!

[justicefornone.livejournal.com]

ooo, Owned by Justice \../

[ryutsuki.livejournal.com]

PINGU!

[torkell]

The penguin!

[dragons-way.livejournal.com]

>ping 127.0.0.1

[torkell]

Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms

[dragons-way.livejournal.com]

Well that's good, It would have been worrying if any of the packets were lost.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

ping.

[torkell]

acknowledged.

[elemnar.livejournal.com]

...ping?

[ricold.livejournal.com]

By the word of the Teacher, and the power of the Maelstrom, I hereby PING.

Sorry, been larping a bit too much...

[torkell]

Ow! Watch it with that rubber band!

[torkell]

*Ricold casts PING targetting BoggyB!

*Ricold gains +5pts networking prowness!
*Ricold gains 1 IP address!
*BoggyB loses 4 packets!
*BoggyB gains -50msec response time!

[olego.livejournal.com]

So what *is* your IP? I can ping you from 2 networks.

[torkell]

Do you want the easy answer, or a challenge?

[elemnar.livejournal.com]

*whistles innocently* ...er ...*attempts to whistle innocently*

[choros.livejournal.com]

pong

[torkell]

The shower is thataway --->

[mirrordreams.livejournal.com]

I dont understand! :S

But I shall still ping you and revel in my naivety!

*ping*

[torkell]

You have commented. Therefore you have understood.

[torkell]

Challenge way: you need to put two things together. The things to put together are my website, and the boy who flew too close to the sun. Once combined you should be able to lookup the address for "here".

[jecook]

>jecook Moos at you. Moooooooooo.

[olego.livejournal.com]

Both, please. :-D

[olego.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing what Icarus has to do with http://thomasmccorkell.me.uk/. :-) It's not icarus.me.uk...

[torkell]

Cap'n! There be a herd of cows bearing down about the starboard bow!

[torkell]

You're very close. Put the two together and you should find it.

[olego.livejournal.com]

Got it, D. S*.

Your laptop eats half my pings:

Request timed out.
Reply from 80.4.*.*: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=46
Request timed out.
Reply from 80.4.*.*: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=46

And your oddities page is a bit scant - where are the short stories, huh? :-D

[mirrordreams.livejournal.com]

I may have understood the instruction, but I don't understand the 'ping' concept...

Why?! And what does it do/mean?

[torkell]

It's not actually mine - that's pewterfish. I've yet to hook Icarus up (need to clear out the server cupboard and sort out power).

[torkell]

Read it as "let me know if you read this".

[olego.livejournal.com]

Wait, huh?

[torkell]

It's pewterfish's machine with his website. Icarus is an old laptop with a dud battery, which is going to become a web server and tinkering machine. The intention is that it'll be proxied through the current machine.

[olego.livejournal.com]

So which one is actually your machine? What's the solution to your evil puzzle?

[torkell]

Your solution is correct. You're actually pinging the firewall that's in front if his server. Icarus is mine, but I've yet to set it up.