Thought I should summarize what I found out about this problem. (Will
also update
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/PingWrongDataByte0Bug.)
RESOLUTION: Turns out that the ping I was / am using is "obsolete" and
it seems the bug does not exist in recent versions of ping (AFAIK).
DISCUSS
rsync traffic... my DSL link was maxed out with it.
P.
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:53:36 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Pierre Fortin wrote on Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:32:23PM -0400 :
> > On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 14:01:54 -0400 Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > [root@bones
Pierre Fortin wrote on Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:32:23PM -0400 :
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 14:01:54 -0400 Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [root@bones pfortin]# ping 64.53.54.1
> PING 64.53.54.1 (64.53.54.1): 56 octets data
> 64 octets from 64.53.54.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=4452.8 ms
Pierr
ping is a part of the iputils pkg.
[narb@narghoul narb]$ rpm -q --whatprovides "/bin/ping"
iputils-20020124-4mdk
On Saturday 07 September 2002 02:29 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Hello matt,
>
> Are you the maintainer of ping? If so, please read this and consider
> implementing a fix. If not do
Hi Craig,
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:07:51 -0500 "J. Craig Woods"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Complete ping response:
>
> > PING 206.245.176.211 (206.245.176.211): 56 octets data
> > 64 octets from 206.245.176.211: icmp_seq=0 ttl=122 time=1099.4 ms
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:09:27 -0400 Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suppose I should run a sniffer on the network, but there really
> should not be a lot of traffic. Can anybody recommend a sniffer that
> comes with Mandrake 7.2 or 8.2 (i.e., so I can install from an rpm)?
Oops... mis
> Complete ping response:
> PING 206.245.176.211 (206.245.176.211): 56 octets data
> 64 octets from 206.245.176.211: icmp_seq=0 ttl=122 time=1099.4 ms
> wrong data byte #0 should be 0x59 but was 0x5858 ff 79 3d 79 6b a 0
>8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
> 2
Background: In conjunction with running fetchmail every 10 minutes, I
ping my ISP before running fetchmail. (My script is set up so that
when I get "0% packet loss" on a sequence of 4 pings, it runs fetchmail
(and then sendmail -q to kick the queue).)
Fairly often (several times a day?), I get o
