Ping command fails

[mteam88]

Bug description

Basically, I am trying to connect to an external website (smtp.gmail.com) in #8976 but there is a connection error. I am trying to debug it so I am using ping

On use, ping fails to connect. Similar openssl, telnet, and netcat commands do not work and just hang with no output.

Steps to reproduce

Open a new, blank gitpod workspace. (Here)

Install the ping command-line tool: sudo apt-get install inetutils-ping

Expected behavior

I expect:

I get though:

Anything else?

I think this is related to #8976

[kylos101]

Hi @axonasif , I've provided a couple workarounds in #8976 , and am therefore removing the priority: highest (user impact) label.

[sagor999]

I believe this is working now, since we used to have firewall rule that would block ICMP packets.
Running in workspace right now:

gitpod /workspace/gitpod (main) $ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (74.125.142.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.142.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=113 time=0.736 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.142.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time=0.841 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.142.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=113 time=0.893 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.142.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=113 time=0.884 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.142.147: icmp_seq=4 ttl=113 time=0.767 ms

Feel free to re-open if it still doesn't work.