I am pinging a working site from my cmd and I get this:
ping site.com
Pinging site.com [x.x.x.x] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from x.x.x.x: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from x.x.x.x: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from x.x.x.x: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from x.x.x.x: Destination host unreachable.
Ping statistics for x.x.x.x:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
I have censored the IP and domain for obvious reasons. The site is accessible from my browser in this machine.
My question is, how/why would they do this?
ping is an ICMP command request which companies/organisations can block using their firewall for security reasons/purposes. It has nothing to do with website's accessibility using browser.
They are receiving your request and not taking any action further; so it says that destination host is unreachable!
So even though you can visit the organisation's website on the web-browser, your ping request can be blocked for the afore-mentioned reason.