On Sunday 03 May 2009, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 2009 11:29:52 +0530 > Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: > [...] > > > Nope, that host doesn't respond to pings anymore. I guess > > VSNL/Tata got tired of having every Internet user in India use > > their server as a test case :) > > [...] > > What? Next you will say that "ping google.com" is not an > acceptable way to check if one's network isn't working.
Ah yes, it is, but it won't tell you if the problem is in your network or just the DNS. OTOH, if you compare: ping <known-ip> with ping google.com you can tell from the combination whether your network or just DNS is misconfigured. > Another interesting thing that I have noted of late is > that Tata Indicom silently drops pings (to, say google.com) > if the ping interval is large, i.e., > ping -i 10 google.com > will work, but > ping -i 15 google.com > will just sit there, and never respond. Why would someone > do that? Fortunately not a Tata customer (oh, those horror stories -- if Hitchcock had been alive he'd be making movies on the Indian Internet Experience), but this just doesn't make sense. One possibility is to test with -n, and see if it's a reverse resolver issue. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
