RE: Crazy Ping Results

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

> I have a very strange problem with "ping" in the 7.2 machine 
> that I just
> loaded from scratch.  If I ping by IP, things look normal; if I ping
> by name, the name is resolved OK, but I get crazy ping results with
> times growing by 4 seconds.  Here is an example pinging a machine on
> our local network (one of our name servers).
<snip> 
> **** Note that it pinged (pang?) the same address -- the ping 
> shows 6 packets
> with adjacent seq numbers, but there are 31 lost packets (why aren't
> there seq number gaps?).
> 
> Another 7.2 machine on our local net gives normal results, 
> either pinging
> by name or by IP.
> 
> Does this make any sense to anyone?  Once it's resolved the 
> address, why
> should ping care whether you specified a name or an IP?
> 
> 
>        pete
> 
> --
>         pete peterson
>         Teradyne, Inc.
>         7 Technology Park Drive
>         Westford, MA 01886-0033

I have seen this one before, too.  IIRC it had something to do with the
route.  Check your default gateway and DNS servers.

Forrest