[Gllug] Pinging a machine that is down

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 11 Jan 2010, Alain Williams wrote:
>I am using the standard ping command, output not piped through anything.
>It is not harmful, I don't think, I am just curious as to why it happens.

Slow name service? When ping takes a few seconds and then spits out a
bunch all at once, it can be that, albeit I haven't seen it doing it
repeatedly. See what "ping -n" does.

Failing that, run tcpdump on the pinged machine?

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