Ping Broken. Help, please?

Hey Team,

Thank you for your fine forum.

I am attempting to install a web server from home.

The machine is a BOSGAME ECOLITE SERIES MINI PC running UBUNTU 24.04.1.

I have a Google Router model GJ2CQ.

When I go to this site:

And check my WAN IP address of “73.92.178.22”

I get the message:

"Destination Host Unreachable Packet Summary

Sent:5

Received:0

Loss:100%

Time:4107 ms"

On my Google Router, under Network Settings, Advanced Networking, Port Management, I have two records:

80->80 and 443->443 for my ubuntu machine LAN IP “192.168.86.119”

I have my UFW Uncomplicated Fire Wall set to allow incoming, outgoing, and routed.

root@ccai:/# sudo ufw status verbose

Status: active

Logging: on (low)

Default: allow (incoming), allow (outgoing), allow (routed)

New profiles: skip

root@ccai:/#

Any clues would be helpful to get my ping working.

Thank you so much!

Theoretically the icmp settings in the firewall can be blocked. No ping allowed then. I always block the ping to reduce the risk for being discovered.

Agreed. Not being able to ping does not mean you can’t access the Web server. They use different ports.

strictly speaking ICMP doesnt use ports, its an entirely separate protocol.

But even the site you’re using to test with tells you that…

Keep in mind that your server may not be the only thing running a firewall between you and the internet…

You can use a reverse proxy for that. If you just want to show your website to somebody

For example:

I am running a web app a port 5000. So I run this command:

ssh -R 80:localhost:5000 nokey@localhost.run

Giving me something like this:

Now anybody can access my website from the internet, by using this link
(no opening port in my router):

https://5f7bf961e6750f.lhr.life/

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