From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 25 00:22:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA02103 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA02098 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id DAA03019 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 03:22:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 03:22:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: debian linux ping ? *WARNING LINUX INVOLVED!!* Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While to trying to figure out why my local cable company whos offering net access, has such flaky service, i ran across this output of ping and cannot figure out WHY it's doing these things. Anyone have an answer? cypress: {12}ping -v idtswe1 76 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): Destination Port Unreachable Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst Data 4 5 00 4400 a758 0 0000 40 11 0024 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UDP: from port 1254, to port 512 (decimal) First question is WHY is it showing a packet with a src and dst address as 127.0.0.1? im not pinging loopback. 64 bytes from 206.101.232.98: icmp_seq=19 ttl=252 time=61.4 ms Correct IP address of idtswe1 64 bytes from lpthomas.winning-edge.com (205.217.148.247): Echo Request ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT idtswe1.idir.net Whoa hello where did you come from. I think debian linux is broke :) 64 bytes from 206.101.232.98: icmp_seq=117 ttl=252 time=40.0 ms 64 bytes from 206.101.232.98: icmp_seq=118 ttl=252 time=53.3 ms 64 bytes from lpthomas.winning-edge.com (205.217.148.247): Echo Request ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Whats the deal on that as well?