are you supposed to be able to "ping" specific pages of websites, or just the domain name?

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Published on 2011-01-08T17:53:30Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 17:56 UTC
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(sorry, i think my jargon is a bit off there, not sure)

I'm trying to work out what's going on with my podcasts not downloading properly, to see whether it was my pod-catching software or the connection i tried doing a ping on the podcast URL e.g. www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/ockham.xml and it failed (i got "could not find host"), it works for the first part of it though www.abc.net.au

I can get to the xml page in a web browser though, and ping doesn't work on the podcasts which have been downloading right either.

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