Ping sends echo request packets to the specified IP address and waits for a response. If there's no response then the address is deemed unreachable at that time. A trace route utility - "tracert" on Windows for example - can be used to help find out where the break in connection is. As stated on ...
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What could be causing problems on pinging Windows 8 machines?
Here at my job I have 5 machines with Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on it. Today I was testing the network conectivity and any of the 5 machines answered to a ICMP ping request(but from another ...
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Ping TTL exceeded
When I try to ping some far away destinations (e.g. mx20.india.com), I always get a TTL exceeded response (even with the maximum value of 255).
My question: is there any other way to reach these ...
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Output only “long pings” / Log connection interruptions
I'm on a connection that sometimes gets interrupted for a while, and I'm trying to determine exactly when using ping, which generates output like this:
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_req=1196 ttl=64 ...
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Is there a utility to ping a server using aliases in ssh config (instead of /etc/hosts)?
I'm trying to standardize my server aliases across projects by linking together ssh config files that I can keep under version control.
I'd like to be able to just define machine aliases along with ...
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Can only access Internet through IE when connected to home network
I'm trying to figure out a network problem I've picked up on my work Windows XP laptop over the past week or two. Everything was working perfectly until recently.
When connected wirelessly to my home ...
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Cannot ping to VMware guest
I have a VM on my laptop that runs Windows Server 2008.
Both my laptop and my VM are connected to my office domain network, and I use NAT network for my VM.
From my VM, I can ping to my laptop, but ...
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Ping-visible on unlock, ping-muted on screen lock (Win7)
When I login to / unlock my Win7, I need to switch the machine to ping-responsiveness mode.
When I pres Win-L key, i.e. lock the machine, I need it to ignore ICMP pings.
How to accomplish this?
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What does `Type: IP (0x0800)` in the Ethernet II part of a ping packet mean?
If I ping to another pc in my network I send a packet that consists out of an ICMP part, a IPv4 part and a Ethernet II part. I can see this using the packet analyser 'wireshark'.
Now the Ethernet II ...
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Can you do “ping %localhost%”?
I would like to be able to ping whatever machine name I am in without first having to do:
localhost
Can I do something like the following?
ping %localhost%
When I do:
ping localhost
the IP ...
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Why Website Cannot Be Accessed But Can Be Pinged? [closed]
I have this issue sometimes and this time it is with buyincoins.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5v61PM7slM&hd=1
While cannot access it, i can ping or tracert successfully. Also Down For ...
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DNS resolution slow, ping domain slow, ping ip fast, nslookup fast
I have a problem with my laptop with Windows 7 installed, and I'm not sure how to go around finding the cause of this. Everything works fine on another laptop with Windows 7.
I've noticed that ...
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MS-DOS command to ping a range of addresses
How can I ping a range of addresses starting with A and ending with B?
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Why can't I ping a Windows 7 box until I ping the other way first?
I discovered an odd thing with my Windows 7 box the other day: I can't ping it from any of my Linux boxes unless I ping them from the Windows box first. And by "I can't ping" I mean that there is no ...
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ttl option in ping is not recognized
I am pinging an Android-2.3 pandaboard (Linaro Build) with a Linux Mint 12 laptop using this command :
$ ping -c 5 -t 10 192.168.50.200
PING 192.168.50.200 (192.168.50.200) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 ...
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Pinging own machine returns an IPv6 address instead of IPv4
When I ping my own machine I get an IPv6 address:
Reply from fe80::1004:p8f0:9e40:a42c%10: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::1004:p8f0:9e40:a42c%10: time<1ms
I used to get the IPv4 address (eg. ...
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Can ping other machine on LAN by IP number but not by name
Suddenly my Win 7 machine is unable to ping by name an XP machine on the LAN, but by IP number it works.
What could be the problem?
The Win 7 machine is connected to the router wirelessly, but the ...
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Prevent connection to specific IP on specific connection
Here's the problem. I have two network connections on my DEV machine.
LAN - Connects to the building network and internet. IP is assigned by DHCP and is 192.168.30.XX.
LOCAL - Connects to a switch, ...
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ping and tracert don't work, while netstat does on windows pc
I am relatively new here and I don't even know if I'm asking the qn in the correct site.
Please bear with me if I'm wrong.
In my command line netstat works, but ping and tracert don't.
I don't get ...
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How to enable response to broadcast ping on Windows?
I have many Windows servers in the lab. I wanted to use ping broadcasting to discover the machines. I try to avoid a central server to maintain the list of machines as this seems like a single point ...
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PING times out in a hop en route to the target
What can I do when a ping times out whilst en route to its destination?
I have contacted the last IP address listed in the trace and they say it is timing out after it leaves their server.
I ...
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Ubuntu VM pinging each other with Internet
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and installed the Virtualbox from the Ubuntu Software Center.
Later on, I installed three (3) Windows XP Virtual Machines. I'm trying to get all of the three VMs to ping each ...
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Why is there a difference between ping “localhost” and ping “local IP address”?
Using cmd and ping on Windows gave me the following results:
Pinging "localhost":
Pinging "192.168.0.10" (local IP address):
Aren't both situations exactly the same?
I mean, I'm pinging ...
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ping|awk not responsive
While trying melodyping, I noticed that
ping <host> |awk '{print $1}'
takes about 30 seconds until the first line is actually displayed. Even though w/o piping to awk each ping is returned in ...
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Is pinging a sufficient way of checking if a server is available?
My company operates on a WAN. Each of our branches operates on a certain range of IPs (192.168.0.100, 192.168.1.100, 192.168.2.100 for example).
I want to monitor the connection. I've written a quick ...
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Ping spikes of ~2500ms constantly
Starting today, I have been experiencing ping spikes while playing a few games. It happens on every game but only on this computer - my other computers which share the same router have no problems. I ...
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DNS works, ping/wget/ntp/etc does not. (linux)
I am trying to do a netinstall of archlinux (done that quite a few times before) but i cant get the internet connection to work on my machine. i used the same settings of the previous (working!) ...
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I cannot connect to home server after a few hours
I have an old PC and I decided to revive it. A LAMP (for my own use) and a P2P server (torrent and e2dk).
My old PC is an AMD Athlon XP (1400 MHz) with 384 Mb of RAM
First of all I installed Ubuntu ...
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Ping flooding: what to do about it?
Recently I have started getting period of poor connections on my home LAN. So, today after my connection was unresponsive for a while once again, I decided to take a look at what was the problem. The ...
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How far a loopback packet sent from an application layer goes on TCP/P layers?
Assuming that I want to check if my ethernet card is working fine, if I send a ping from a cmd on Windows, how far the sent packet will go? I mean, the packet will fall down over all the TCP/IP layers ...
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How to ping ip dslam which is in other subnet
I want to ping ip dslam, which is in another subnet
The connection is like this:
MyPc-----Rj45----------Adsl2+ Modem---------Rj11-------Dslam
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How to check if Windows machine is online by IP without ping?
I have Windows Machine, and its firewall rejects ICMP pings, so just testing the machine using ping IP doesn't work even when the machine is up and running.
How can I find out if Windows machine is ...
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How can one machine ping another, but the reverse ping doesn't work
I've got two VMware Workstation virtual machines running ...
Virtual A can ping the host laptop most of the time, other real machines on my home network all of the time, but it gets a "request timed ...
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Ping from windows 7 get no reply but sets errorlevel to 0
From a Windows 7 machine, I ping an IP address of a turned-off machine.
C:\>ping 192.168.1.222
Pinging 192.168.1.222 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.222: Destination host unreachable.
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Ping to router not possible from ssh connected machine
I have a ubuntu pc with openssh server installed in my home network. I can connect via SSH to it without any problems.
Being connected, every bunch of minutes this machine is not more able to ping ...
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On ping first packet fails
I am trying to ping a virtual machine.The first packet always fails and rest all packets are recieved.The DNS of the virtual machine is configured manually.Can someone help on what can be the issue
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When pinging, the ping responses come from random domain names, but the same IP address?
When I ping a site, I get ping responses from random domains. You can see this in the paste below. I started a ping, and surfed around a few sites, and the domain keeps changing.
I've also observed ...
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linux ping not actually sending 1 packet per second
I've been experiencing some odd behavior. While on a congested wireless network I run
$ ping google.com
I expect one packet to be sent out each second and only some of them to come back with a ...
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Why can my two computers on the same hub not ping each other?
I have a pair of Windows XP computers that are connected by Ethernet cables to the same hub and they are in the same subnet (10.1.10.0/24), but they cannot ping each other. When I do attempt the ping, ...
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Why can't Wireshark read packets from ping?
I have Wireshark started, then I ping an IP address.
But Wireshark is not picking up any packet sending to or receiving (echoing) from the destination address.
Why? Is ping "protected" from being ...
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Netgear DGN1000 Freezes
I have a Netgear DGN1000 (firmware version V1.1.00.41_ww). Every couple of days, however, the router 'freezes'. I cannot access the internet (not even DNS lookups), nor can I access the router's ...
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CentOS - Hostname showing as my hosting provider, not server
I've recently purchased a new server, it's set up and configured with CentOS 5.7 and cPanel/WHM.
DNS resolves correctly when accessing websites that point to the server, however, there is a problem ...
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Super High Ping Rates to Router (That randomly happen)
For the last 2 to 3 weeks I am getting extremely high ping rates to my router and it randomly seems to happen.
I have recently bought freephoneline.ca which is a voip solution that can be hooked up ...
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why can I ping any word and get response? (i.e. cake)
I have a 3D printer hooked up to a business class network. For some reason I found that I can ping any word and get a response from a specific ip address (always the same number). The printer's ...
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Cannot RDP, Ping, etc to Amazon EC2 Instance
I've been trying to ping an Amazon EC2 Server on the Free Tier.
I created a:
Windows-2008-SP2-i386-Base-2012.01.12 (ami-fed396ac)
Description: Microsoft Windows 2008 Datacenter 32-bit AMI ...
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Timeout while testing MTU via ping
I tested it on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 with MTU size 1500B.
IP packet - 20B
ICMP packet - 8B
1500 - 28 = 1472
So maximum packet that I could ping without fragmentation is 1472B, and this is ...
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pinging wireless clients is gambling
For browsing the internet on all computers in my house, I've setted up a small home network some months ago.
Internet works perfectly everywhere, but I have some odd problems with communication ...
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Networking - i want to prioritise traffic on a sky router without QoS
I have the timeless issue of being the 'gamer' in a shared house on a highly contentious Sky internet connection and i want to do something about it!
(can't come home from a hard day at work and ...
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Mac OS X 10.7 can't ping/telnet localhost
I'm developing using django/postgresql on Mac OS X 10.7 and suddenly I am unable to access the test server through http://localhost:8000/. I can make it listen on 0.0.0.0:8000 and then it works...
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iPhone can't connect to internet on other subnet, but other computers can
Here's my setup; I'm a router newb so I don't completely understand the intricacies of my configuration - but suffice it to say, I've set it up this way so that anyone who's connected to Router A ...
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Can't ping Linux IPv6 address from Windows XP
I gave an IPv6 address to my SUSE Linux machine on a VirtualBox VM with ifconfig eth0 inet6 add ...
I can't ping that address from Windows XP (vice versa) The address of the Linux machine is efbb::26 ...
