From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: Ping a DNS??? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:31:52 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <03011015315202.31603@unix.pa3gcu> References: <20030110090952.A303@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030110090952.A303@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Hal MacArgle , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Friday 10 January 2003 14:09, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Contemplating an ISP change I thought I'd ping the present > thence the proposed DNS's to evaluate the round trip time.. > > The present, 204.97.4.2, returned it's RTT to be expected.. The > proposed, 65.196.16.3, returned "100% packet loss" - not expected. You forgot one thing, some ISP's block pings, have you tryed to actually use 65.196.16.3 as your DNS,?? i have and its quick... Rest deleted, all i did was add 'nameserver 65.196.16.3' as first line to my /etc/resolv.conf BTW; Your replt too field is now ok, but i guess you knew that. > > TIA and thanks, > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) > haltec@iceweb.net | w8mch@iceweb.net > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable -- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs