Questions tagged [ping]
A utility available on all operating systems that helps test network connectivity.
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"ping: bad address" on DNS entry, IP is fine
I have two centos/bind dns servers -
masterdns.internal.example.com
secondarydns.internal.example.com
if configuring a desktop I can assign the DNS addresses for each and can successfully ping ...
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Ping takes a very long time to start
The internet on my mac keeps slowing down and I'm struggling to diagnose the problem. Other identical machines on the same network aren't suffering from the same problem. After a reboot the internet (...
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What could be the reason for no longer being able to ping my router or connect to network? What else can I try?
First off - I was eventually told to post here by a user on another SE site after several users had downvoted me with no explanation until one finally was kind enough to explain that I'd misunderstood ...
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Bridge from QEMU inside WLS2 to Windows
I have a Windows (Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2) network interface with static address 192.168.1.6 set.
In Hyper-V manager I set WSL virtual switch to connect to "External network" and choose ...
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Why cannot veth-pair I created ping through each other
I created veth pair
ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
ip addr add 1.2.3.101/24 dev veth0
ip addr add 1.2.3.102/24 dev veth1
ip link set veth0 up
ip link set veth1 up
485: veth1@veth0: <...
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Bad latency on PLC (TP-Link) home network
I noticed very bad latency (ping times) when playing Rocket League on my PC connected to the internet over PLC (power-line communication, i.e. ethernet over power) -- 60 ms when my gaming PC is the ...
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ping ipv6 address Address family for hostname not supported
using ifconfig to see eth0 ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. ping ipv4 is ok, but ping ipv6 results in:
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How to ping IOS Devices to see if they are online
Is it possible to ping an IOS device (Ipad or Iphone) from the command prompt? When I ping them from the command prompt (the only option by the way) I get a timed out response, unlike if I ping a ...
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Virtualbox machine cannot ping its own public IP
I have a strange problem. I have a bridged network adapter on my virtualbox machine (Kali Linux) - with assigned IP address with my local LAN pool (192.168.0.22) and I can ping e.g google.com (DNS ...
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Can't ping my WIN10 laptop from my phone
I am using some sync application to move files from my phone to an external hard drive plugged to my laptop.
I started this with my old laptop with WIN 7 on it and I was doing it for about 2 years. A ...
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WLAN media streaming mode for Linux to stop ping spikes?
After hours of trying to fix my router ping spike problem I found a thread on Tom's Hardware. Last answers directed me to this Windows program called WLAN Optimizer:
http://www.martin-majowski.de/...
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Ping spikes on 5ghz/2.4ghz wi-fi only on one computer
I have strange problem with Wi-Fi on my latop. I tried to use 5ghz and 2.5ghz - and it make no significant difference. When I ping my router it looks like this:
Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of ...
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Why can I ping machines using the .local suffix, but not without?
My local network uses a .lan suffix. I would rather not use any suffix at all, but apparently pfSense doesn't permit this.
I am running Windows, MacOS and Linux systems on this lan. Most of my ...
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Connected via UMTS but can't ping default gateway
I have a UMTS modem/Windows computer that can't connect properly to the internet. It gets an active PDP context and Windows gets an IP address from DHCP, DNS and default gateway addresses.
But no ...
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Firewall blocks ICMP even with Allow rules, even when disbled
Sometime early October (right after update Tuesday???). My Window 7 home machine stopped responding to anything incoming. Effectively breaking iTunes, Sonos, TiVo Desktop, RDP etc. But all those ...
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Bash Script will not stop.
So i had the bright idea of making a script that pings my IP to see if its up as i am having some issues with it. so here is the script I made.
while :
do
ping (IP address)
done
now it ...
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TP-Link router (TD-W8951ND) super high ping
I'm using the router mentioned in the title and I'm having a connection issue: from time to time my connection starts lagging very hard and becomes basically unusable. I'm connected through wi-fi. ...
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Windows 8 requiring trailing dot in DNS name in order to resolve
I'm in the process of setting up a home network but I'm having issues on my Windows 8 machine. If I ping another host on my network, the name won't resolve. If I use nslookup, it will resolve no ...
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TTL getting changed while pinging local network printer
When i'm pining a local device (NW printer) from win-10 PC using cmd, the TTL changing from 64 to 255 and again back to 64 continuously.
Kindly share the probable cause for this. see below..
Reply ...
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No connection to client network via OpenVPN site-to-site connection
I am trying to connect two of my homes (and maybe more than that later) via an OpenVPN site-to-site connection. My goal is so that all clients on all sites are able to talk to eachother.
But for some ...
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Can't ping default gateway (Gaia, Check Point) from Windows 7 machine in VirtualBox
I'm trying to set up a virtual network according to the topology in the CCSM Lab Setup Guide (Check Point training) with the following subset of VMs giving me trouble. All of this is being run in ...
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Why can't I run a ping command from the command prompt when not in administrator mode?
I am running Windows 10 on my PC. A couple months ago, I installed a Windows Update in the middle of the day. Prior to the update, I had been running a continuous ping from the command prompt. After ...
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Devices connected to router can't reach devices connected to access point when using the same SSID?
I seached and tried different solutions for hours but can not get this to work.
Hopefully someone is able to help me.
The Setup:
Main router (Salt Fiber Box) with IP 192.168.1.1
It has 2.4ghz and 5ghz ...
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How can I put back my ping command in english?
I recently add a the japanese language to my system and, from here, my PING command is in japanese :
➜ ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) バイトのデータ
64 バイト応答 送信元 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 時間=16....
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How to ping to the vpn server, from outside the vpn, when connected?
If I'm connected to a vpn, and I ping the vpn server, the ping will go via the vpn, so I'm not really testing my local ping with the server.
How can I test my local ping to the server, when connected ...
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High response time every 10-12 pings
I'm at the end of my rope trying to figure out a network issue I'm having with my Windows 10 desktop PC. I have recently noticed latency issues while watching video online or playing video games. My ...
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Internet Works, but pings all fail, and phones won't connect
I am having a very strange situation going on.
All of the following statements are true:
I can connect wirelessly to my network via my computers.
I cannot connect to any of the computers on my ...
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400 Bad Request No request found micro_httpd when accessing router page
PROBLEM
I have been having issues with my ping lately so I decided to troubleshoot what the issue could be.
My ping issue would happen on and off so I did not pay much attention thinking it would go ...
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Unable to reach localhost (High Sierra)
Started running into difficulties with my MBP running high sierra after a forced reboot (crash) earlier today. My issue basically boils down to this:
After a reboot, I'm unable to establish a ...
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"ping myserver-name.local" returning "Temporary failure in name resolution"
I have an ubuntu server in my local network that I can ping using its IP address.
However, following the answer here, when I try
ping myserver-name.local
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Temporary failure in name ...
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Trying to get Windows 8.1 Remte Desktop to work on a newly cleaned laptop
I have two laptops both Windows 8.1. One of which I am trying to setup now as it has just been factory reset after getting too much rubbish on it.
I am trying to remote desktop into a server in ...
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ping hostname resolves to wrong ip
If I ping a server by the hostname from the command prompt, I get the wrong IP address. The IP address returned used to be the IP, but not anymore. How do I flush the cache? It is not the "ipconfig /...
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WiFi Range Extenders, and Failing ARP requests
I'm working on a network, as outlined below - a BT HomeHub 5, and a Netgear EX6150 WiFi extender. There are other points on the network though I've left them out for brevity, and all of the pink ...
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Unable to ping local systems from freshly installed Ubuntu Linux 16.04.3 LTS
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. I let the installation process configure one of the two ethernet nics on my system. The default interface got set up for DHCP, which for the moment is ...
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Unable to ping specific IP address via WiFi
I have a laptop which refuses to ping a specific IP address on my LAN at home.
I have a router, which connects a bunch of PCs, laptops, phones, etc. My router deals out the following IP addresses (...
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Clients in LAN can't see each other
We have 2 windows 10 PCs sitting next to each other plugged into the same router (Fritz!Box). They are both on the same network mask 255.255.255.0 and both clients have the windows firewall disabled. ...
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ARP requests sent on different subnets
I am quite confused with an experiment I made at home. I have two computers, say A and B:
A and B are connected (ethernet) to the same private network (with a gateway to the internet) 192.168.1.99/24 ...
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Host seems down Nmap?
I'm currently running Nmap 7.50
I'm trying to execute the following command:
nmap -p 1-65535 -T4 -A -v IP
But when I do that it says:
Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping ...
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The ping command fails when I try to ping my CentOS 7 VM’s own interface
I've built a CentOS 7.3 VM using VirtualBox. This VM has the following interface:
[root@localhost ~]# ip addr show enp0s3
2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast ...
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MacOS not able to ping LAN-servers over IPv6
Since June I got an IPv6 subnet from my ISP. I'm using an Asus AC-66U router which is configured to get a native IPv6 prefix. The prefix length is 56 and the router is configured for stateless ...
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Arp request 0 responses
I'm trying to ping my android device (10.0.0.38) from my PC (10.0.0.56).
They both are in the same network.
However, when I use arping to send ARP requests from my PC to my Android, I don't receive ...
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Why can't I ping while I can see in ARP?
There are several questions asked the same way; I have been trying various solutions for 3 days with no luck; that's why I am asking from scratch.
I have a wireless router and a wireless access point ...
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Connection to router extremely unstable
connection CONSTANTLY DROPS, and it's not just the internet connection, it's the connection with the router as well because i cannot ping it when it happens. Here are the screenshots, this first one ...
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Linux virtual machines cannot connect to each other via virtualbox network
I have created two linux virtual machines in virtualbox, one for server and one for client. But these two cannot connect to each other via virtualbox network. The pings are not reachable after giving ...
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Cannot Ping Server From Specific IP Address
I have two virtual machines (Web Server and DB Server), which are connected to each other using local network.
The issue I am having is that I cannot ping DB Server from the Web Server, though I ...
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Ping is (LSSR) not working as it should
when trying to reach google from my PC, here's the trace route:
But when trying to use loose source routing ping, it always return "Request timed out."
ping -j 130.43.32.33 google.com (returns, ...
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Command ping -c 1 localhost requires admin EVEN if run as admin
I've written a program that makes ip addresses, and I'm trying to ping the IP addresses to find out if they are false or true.
When I use the command
ping -c 1 <ip>
it tells me
Access ...
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Internet drops frequently unless running an infinite ping
My internet tends to cut out and then return a few minutes later, I've been struggling with this issue for years with Comcast, I've gone through ~4 modems, and 2 routers and countless technician ...
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Varying TTL on LAN
I've got a wireless router behind a router-modem.
If I ping my router-modem (TWO hops), all seems well :
robut@host:~$ ping 172.X.X.36
PING 172.X.X.36 (172.X.X.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
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Unreachable nodes in a mixed lan wlan network
I have a home Network starting with my Internet router which contains 300 MBit/s WLAN and a 4 port Gigabit Switch (FB7390).
Attached to that Switch there is anoter 5 port Gigabit Switch. It was ...
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