A few months ago, when I was installing arch linux, I needed to check my internet connection. Pinging was an easy way to go. I ping-ed google. Good. Then i tried to ping my own server. Nothing.
I left it since it wasn’t important, but it sort of bothered me.
Fast forward to Sunday. I am studying SOLR for searches on my site. The tutorial suggests using ping to my server to check if solr is working or not. Then I remember that I can’t!!
After mucking about with Ubuntu iptables and ubuntu’s firewall ufw, I finally stumble on a reference in a site the pretty much sent me in the right directions, but not quite 100%.
The solution was to go to the AWS Management Console.
Now you should be able to ping your server nicely.