RE: [suse-sparc] Ping Times...

dirkw@rentec.com
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 06:43:10 PST

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    Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:43:10 -0500 (EST)
    From: dirkw@rentec.com
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0201140935330.1125-100000@pooh.rentec.com>
    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Ping Times...
    

    NT-DNS may cause some trouble :-) but i wouldn't hold it responsible
    for this. first: are you guys using DNS for name resolution also for
    localhost? then, ping on my system does only the first time an
    address resolution (try -n if you don't want that). then you probably
    have nscd running which caches a number of names once you resolved it for
    a certain period of time.

    On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Andrew Hooper wrote:

    > I have done a bit more testing, with some interesting results..
    >
    > Sometimes ping works fine and reports the correct ping times, other times it
    > breaks, I have tried to narrow down the fault with little success, stopping
    > and starting the network and route processes doesn't seem to affect the
    > condition.
    > The only issues I may have is with the local DNS, this a MS NT DNS, which
    > takes a while to get the internet address resolved, taking the local DNS out
    > of resolve.conf make the ping of a domain name resolve much better.

    what do you mean by that? are we talking about broadcast pings here?
    then try "-n"

    > Does anybody know of issues with MS DNS and Linux systems? (I know the MS
    > DNS is a little on the non standard side).
    >
    > I am using a 100 MB Full Duplex link to an Extreme Summit 48. Anthony is
    > your system similarly configured???
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Anthony Moulen <ajmoulen@moulen.org>@VITALNETSVC
    > > Sent: 09 January 2002 20:45
    > > To: Suse-Sparc (E-mail)
    > > Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Ping Times...
    > >
    > > <<...OLE_Obj...>>
    > > I also get insane ping times when doing ping. The response looks right
    > > just
    > > the calculations are off. Could it be a problem with the 64/32 bit
    > > numbers
    > > clashing with each other?
    > >
    > > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:23 am, Andrew Hooper wrote:
    > > > Hi all
    > > >
    > > > Is it me or are the reported ping times for SuSE 7.3 on Sparc Ultra
    > > systems
    > > > a bit strange.
    > > >
    > > > For instance if I ping a local system I get ping times like 1410.2188
    > > sec
    > > > even though the ping responds normally.
    > > > on the summary line the min max and average times are quoted in ms but
    > > with
    > > > numbers like 1331419.490..
    > > >
    > > > The network appears to be working just fine, so I can only guess that it
    > > > has something to do with the ping program having a problem with 64 bit
    > > > processors.
    > > > This could be a real problem if you use the system to monitor network
    > > > devices and report the ping times, such as programs like Big brother.
    > > >
    > > > Has anybody else seen this, is there a fix..
    > > >
    > > > Andrew Hooper
    > >
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    cheers,
            ~dirkw
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