On Friday 10 January 2003 14:09, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Contemplating an ISP change I thought I'd ping the present > thence the proposed DNS's to evaluate the round trip time.. > > The present, 204.97.4.2, returned it's RTT to be expected.. The > proposed, 65.196.16.3, returned "100% packet loss" - not expected.
You forgot one thing, some ISP's block pings, have you tryed to actually use 65.196.16.3 as your DNS,?? i have and its quick... Rest deleted, all i did was add 'nameserver 65.196.16.3' as first line to my /etc/resolv.conf BTW; Your replt too field is now ok, but i guess you knew that. > > TIA and thanks, > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
