From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 17 08:14:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA16653 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:14:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (Main.GBData.COM [207.90.222.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16647 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA16313 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:14:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199609171514.KAA16313@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Strange error on Freefall To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:14:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello, I was on FreeFall earlier and ran into the following problem: freefall:gclarkii# ping srimain.srisoft.com PING srimain.srisoft.com (207.90.208.225): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 207.90.208.225: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=188.854 ms 64 bytes from 207.90.208.225: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=209.467 ms ^C --- srimain.srisoft.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 33% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 188.854/199.160/209.467 ms freefall:gclarkii# telnet srimain.srisoft.com Trying 198.66.103.161... freefall:gclarkii# Why does the DNS return both variables consistly, one to ping and the other to telnet and rlogin??? Any ideas? Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii