Ping operation permitted?

hangals · January 28, 2021, 10:24am

Why this is happening when i try to ping in terminal?
" ping site
PING site (216.58.214.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
From X (X) icmp_seq=1 Destination Port Unreachable
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted "

HulaHoop · January 28, 2021, 3:01pm

ICMP can’t go over Tor

Patrick · January 28, 2021, 4:24pm

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix-Workstation_Firewall#ping

madaidan · January 30, 2021, 1:35am

Also, if using permission-hardening (currently not the default), the CAP_NET_RAW capability will be removed from ping to reduce attack surface since it wouldn’t work anyway: https://github.com/Whonix/anon-apps-config/blob/master/etc/permission-hardening.d/30_ping.conf

Patrick · January 30, 2021, 3:24am

Good point. Added to documentation.