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Ping
I am trying to troubleshoot some issues with a network. And while talking to a tech person, I was told to try this Ping command.
I do things like:
ping yahoo.com
ping www.google.com
Here is one extract from an example, I did just now:
>ping yahoo.com
Pinging yahoo.com [216.109.112.135] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 216.109.112.135:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
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My question goes like this. This computer is working fine. It is connecting to the internet. Any website. Email. Everything is fine.
It seems suggested that this command should have some other behaviour if things are going right. Like, if you can visit Yahoo freely, then this command should give no error message. If above is indeed an error message. Is it?
How should you interpret it?
If the command was complaining that things are not working correctly, then the tech person may advise that the other issue I was discussing with him is outside his field.
I do things like:
ping yahoo.com
ping www.google.com
Here is one extract from an example, I did just now:
>ping yahoo.com
Pinging yahoo.com [216.109.112.135] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 216.109.112.135:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
--END QUOTE--
My question goes like this. This computer is working fine. It is connecting to the internet. Any website. Email. Everything is fine.
It seems suggested that this command should have some other behaviour if things are going right. Like, if you can visit Yahoo freely, then this command should give no error message. If above is indeed an error message. Is it?
How should you interpret it?
If the command was complaining that things are not working correctly, then the tech person may advise that the other issue I was discussing with him is outside his field.
Expert_Professi
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Posted April 27th, 2006 23:00
Many ISP block Ping attempts (as do some websites) so not being able to ping a site is not a 100% guarantee something is wrong. Like the above post... try pinging the gateway or another machine on the network
alzak
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Posted April 27th, 2006 18:00