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From: Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ping by IP fails, Ping by name works???
Date: 26 Mar 1996 04:44:10 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <4j7smq$1iu@bug.rahul.net>
References: <3156D332.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: jive.rahul.net
NNTP-Posting-User: dholmes
In <3156D332.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> writes:
>Why would the following happen?
>bash$ ping jurassicsparc.engeast.baynetworks.com.
>PING jurassicsparc.engeast.baynetworks.com (192.32.244.67): 56 data
>bytes
>64 bytes from 192.32.244.67: icmp_seq=0 ttl=251 time=4.064 ms
>64 bytes from 192.32.244.67: icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=10.678 ms
>64 bytes from 192.32.244.67: icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=3.886 ms
>64 bytes from 192.32.244.67: icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=3.729 ms
>^C
>--- jurassicsparc.engeast.baynetworks.com ping statistics ---
>4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
>round-trip min/avg/max = 3.729/5.589/10.678 ms
>bash$ ping 192.32.224.67
>PING 192.32.224.67 (192.32.224.67): 56 data bytes
>^C
>--- 192.32.224.67 ping statistics ---
^
Because you typo'd the address. ;) The 2 indicated should be a 4 according
to the first round of ping results.
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