From: Charles Church (cchurch@wamnet.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 11:41:49 GMT-3
Jerry,
Have him show it to you. A lot of DBAs consider ping to be a test of
connectivity to a database, so it's really a layer 6/7 thing. If the
database server is busy, it may take a little while. 80 seconds sounds kind
of fishy though. ICMP uses TTL like any other IP packet, so packets won't
loop forever. Put a sniffer on there and verify what he's telling you.
Chuck Church
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Jerry
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:19 PM
To: ccielab
Subject: PING slightly OT
Hello group,
I had a "genius" who dabbles in his own network code say
that his Ping response time from client to his server, which is only 3
routers away, was over 80 seconds. At first I thought he meant milliseconds
but it actually turned out to be 1 minute and 20 seconds.
Question #1.) Does anyone know the timeout maximum from the ICMP spec? I
tried looking up in the RFC but was unable to find it.
Any extraneous comments welcome.
Jerry
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