Clayton wrote:
What happens if you do a "ping -n <known addr>" ? If that also doesn't work, try "traceroute -n <known addr>". If ICMPs for some reason are being dropped during one of these outages, the "ping -n" wont work either, but the "traceroute -n" might just show how far they do get.
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I tried ping -n and got the same results as a regular ping (both to a URL and an IP)... no replies back.
Okay. (the -n bit was just to switch off dns lookups).
traceroute -n did produce results... a lot of lines with *'s and various IPs.
Can you post some of the output perhaps?
I need to test this some more with known URL/IP combinations that reply normally and then hit them again during an outage to see the difference. I hope to be able to do this tonight.
Just use an IP address - using a hostname only causes DNS lookups, that we don't really care about. 194.150.245.35 = www.sbb.ch.
Is it possible that the dropped ICMPs could be a result of some misconfig on my end? I know little about ICMPs (I'm reading up on it though).
It is possible, but you said you got something through with the traceroute, so I think it's happening elsewhere. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org