Re: [IPCop-user] Can't ping IPCop

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:03:11 -0600, 
"HOMER_Simpson" <H_O...@ho...> wrote in message 
<OE3...@ho...>:

> Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..wintendo's can do 'ping -n'? (no-dns pings)
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to here.  On Wintendo you
> can do ping hostname (will append DNS suffix of the machine, if it's
> defined) ping hostname. (will just try to resolve hostname, no DNS
> suffix gets appended) ping hostname.fqdn (if different from the
> machine's fqdn) ping <ipaddr> (will *usually* resolve hostnames on
> local subnet or you can do ping -a <ipaddr> to make it do a DNS
> lookup)
> 
> Ping -n on Wintendo^H^H^H^H^Hdows just says to send a certain number
> of packets.  For instance, "ping -n 5 hostname" will ping hostname 5
> times.

..'ping -n <ipaddr>' turns off dns look-ups on penguin boxes.  
For 5 pings with dns lookup: 'ping -c 5 <ipaddr>'. 

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