[Gllug] Pinging a machine that is down

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 11 Jan, David Damerell wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
   I consider the effect normal when the destination is unavailable,
although the display is immediate when there is a response, but although I
do not know the reason it does not actually worry me.


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