Wget and curl can work normally, but ping fails

Question

When I ping www.google.com and 8.8.8.8, I get no reply:

# ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.58.221.228) 56(84) bytes of data.
( no response)

# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
( no response)

20 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 19006ms

There has been no response. But, both curl and wget are OK. My OS is CentOS 7.

Here is my network configuration file:

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens33 
TYPE=Ethernet
#BOOTPROTO=dhcp
BOOTPROTO=static
DEFROUTE=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
#IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPADDR=192.168.42.12
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.42.129
DNS1=192.168.42.129
DNS2=114.114.114.114
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_PEERDNS=yes
IPV6_PEERROUTES=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
NAME=ens33
UUID=e7328f29-6313-4382-8023-b7740ed4f7ad
ONBOOT=yes

Here is ip and route information:

# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:4d:df:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.42.12/24 brd 192.168.42.255 scope global ens33
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe4d:dfbf/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 100
    link/none 
    inet 10.8.0.1 peer 10.8.0.2/32 scope global tun0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
# ip route
default via 192.168.42.129 dev ens33  proto static  metric 100 
10.8.0.0/24 via 10.8.0.2 dev tun0 
10.8.0.2 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.8.0.1 
192.168.42.0/24 dev ens33  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.42.12  metric 100 

cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep echo

outputs nothing.

I see, not be able to connect to Google because of the firewall:GFW.

traceroute output:

# traceroute -T www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (216.58.197.100), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  gateway (192.168.42.129)  0.541 ms  0.378 ms  0.294 ms
 2  * * *
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traceroute with www.vim.org output:

     # traceroute -T www.vim.org
traceroute to www.vim.org (216.34.181.97), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  gateway (192.168.42.129)  0.447 ms  0.419 ms  0.287 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
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15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  vhost.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.97)  229.060 ms  214.904 ms  220.727 ms

But , ping www.vim.org also have no response.

# ping www.vim.org
PING vhost.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.97) 56(84) bytes of data.
(no response)

Thank you for any advice.

Answer 1

The ping uses the ICMP protocol and ICMP traffic may be blocked on your network. Try tracepath and traceroute using tcp/udp.

Tracroute using tcp:

    traceroute -T www.google.com

should work.

Also check if your firewall is blocking ICMP.

   #service iptables stop

OR.

  #systemctl stop firewalld.service

and then try again using ping

If the problem still exists then ICMP traffic is blocked on your network level and ask your network admin.

Some troubleshooting with ICMP on local system:

To check whether ICMP is enabled or disabled run the command:

 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

The output is 0 or 1:

0 means that ICMP is enabled
1 means that ICMP is disabled

If it's disabled and you want to enable it:

change 1 to 0 in the above file

Or run the command:

iptables  -I  INPUT  -i  ech0  -p   icmp  -s  0/0  -d  0/0   -j  ACCEPT

But you check that you are connected to the internet even if ICMP is blocked by using:

   nc -vz google.com 80