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Michael Covington
15,290 PointsWhy does pinging a container work for me when instructor says it shouldn't?
The instructor says that pinging the IP address of a container from the host doesn't work. However, when I try, it doesn't work. Is this new or?
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-30-224 ~]$ ping -c3 172.17.0.3
PING 172.17.0.3 (172.17.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.17.0.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.048 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.046 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.047 ms
--- 172.17.0.3 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2032ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.046/0.047/0.048/0.000 ms