Tuesday, November 13, 2007

network problem?

Some DOS commands that can help determine network problems:
ping, tracert, nslookup, netstat

C:\Documents and Settings\unplug1.6>ping tttx-inst1.com

Pinging tttx-inst1.com [182.11.110.111] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 182.11.110.111:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),


C:\Documents and Settings\unplug1.6>tracert minn

Tracing route to minn.xx.com [182.11.110.111]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 182.11.110.111
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 25 ms 23 ms 24 ms 192.168.16.160
4 24 ms 23 ms 25 ms minn.xx.com [182.11.110.111]

If there were a problem with an ip, you can specify which ip to use in tracert:
tracert -j 180.16.116.116 oh-01.xx.com

Tracing route to oh-01.xx.com [180.16.116.116]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\unplug1.6>nslookup 192.168.16.160
Server: oh-01.xx.com
Address: 182.16.160.16

*** oh-01.xx.com can't find 192.168.16.160: Non-existent domain

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