Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 11:39:55 -0600 From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using `ping' to diagnose network connections reasonable? Message-ID: <v02140a01ad17069d95c1@[199.183.109.242]>
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>Is it reasonable to assume that if a host supports forwarding or DNS >queries, it will also answer pings? In general, yes. >What if you've got pings blocked >somehow but allow DNS traffic through? I wouldn't want to flag a host >as `unreachable' when in fact it would have worked fine for its >intended purpose! That would be worse than no error checking at all. I don't quite agree. If you indicate that the host is not responding to the "ping" and allow a manual override, I don't really see a problem. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net
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