gping only works in the local Network

[JPRuehmann]

If I start gping for local devices (192.168.1.*/24) it works fine.
but if I try such as gping google.com I get the following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/gping", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pinggraph==1.0', 'console_scripts', 'gping')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gping/pinger.py", line 313, in run
    _run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gping/pinger.py", line 343, in _run
    plotted = plot(width, height, buff, host)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gping/pinger.py", line 181, in plot
    u"█", column + 2, 2, 2 + bar_height, paint=_paint
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gping/pinger.py", line 72, in vertical_line
    self[column, y] = (next(data_iter), paint)
StopIteration

How can I make it work?
Thanks

[JPRuehmann]

Why it works only on local Computers?
I've tried with multiple Computers but none works?
I am using Kubuntu 16.04 LTS
Thanks,

[orf]

Hey Jan, I'm a little short of time at the moment to diagnose this. Can you try and use the snap version (which uses Python 3) and see if that works? Can you use normal ping to hit Google, and do you get a response?

[JPRuehmann]

the snap cannot be found by snap.
error: cannot install "gping": snap not found
normal ping just works fine.
PING google.com (216.58.207.46) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from fra16s24-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.207.46): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=29.6 ms
on my Laptop behind a Firewall localhost is the only working Address all other in my Local net aren reachable by gping but with normal ping they work, on all other PCs the Local Net works, But nothing outside.
Thanks,

[orf]

Hmm. I think I know what could be causing this, it must be a unicode/locale issue.

Can you run this on Python 3? pip uninstall gping && pip3 install gping

Thanks for reporting this, if it works on Python 3 I think I can fix this. the u"█" statement must have a length of two on your system for some reason...

[orf]

This should be fixed in the new release. Please update the package and let me know if it fails 👍

[JPRuehmann]

Thanks now it works as expected.