On 2022-02-07, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:40:24 -0800 (PST), Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> declaimed the following: > >>On 2022-02-07, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >>> Also, for a machine freshly booted, with no cache, even pinging >>> Google first requires making contact with a DNS server to ask for >>> Google's IP address. With no network, the DNS look-up will fail >>> before ping even tries to hit Google. >> >>Ah, c'mon... Every geek worth his salt knows a few real world IP >>addresses without relying on DNS. If you want to "ping Google", it's >> >> $ ping 8.8.8.8 >>or >> $ ping 8.8.4.4 >> > > Which happen to be Google's DNS servers -- not what most think of as > "Google"
Right. So even asking "do you have Google" is too vague. :) > Manipulates network routing tables. Sorry, I didn't know that the Windows "route" command didn't recognize the standard -n option. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list