Off-topic: bizarre ping failure

This morning I was trying to connect to a client videoconferencing codec via their data network and was doing a classic “ping” test to the IP address of the codec to test connectivity. I’m used to the standard “Request timed out” or “Network unreachable” errors, but this morning I experienced an error I’ve never seen in almost two decades of using ping: I experienced “General failure.”

Introducing “General failure.”, courtesy of your standard ping test.

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Strange days my friends…

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