Traveling a Network
Traveling a Network using Ping and Tracert Ping In this post, I will review some things that the tools ping and tracert can assist in network troubleshooting. The outcomes of ping tell you a couple things right away. 1) DNS resolution. Before ping can even determine what, it is connecting to, it needs to know where it is going. When you run “ping google.com,” the very first line returns the IP of google.com based on your DNS server's query. 2) The replies measure the response time to get the reply from sending x bytes to the destination along with the packet size sent and TTL. Packet size can be adjusted for testing networks where jumbo frames are in use. 32 bytes is the default all networks support. The TTL tells you how many routers your packet went thru to get to the final endpoint. if a packet's TTL gets to 0, the router will drop the packet. TTLs function is to help keep the network clean from traffic getting caught in a loop. 3) Statistics. This tells you that based on se...