when i go to PING anything.. its doesn't matter what i'm pinging... its like it PINGS it, just does NOT display anything, like ping reply from or request timed out.. it just sits there until i hit CTRL - C to get it to stop.. & then it actually shows the statistics of the ping.. how many sent & recieved & everything.. however, i'm not sure i have got any of them to say they received, i'm wondering if there is some setting i'm missing out on here, or if anyone has hearda this b4?

thanks to all who can offer suggestions..


thadoc

you should just be able to type ping <ip address> and it should show you as it sends each packet, then when u hit ctrl + c it will show u sent, received, loss, etc. you may be able to try ping -v <ip address>. I'm not at my linux comp so i am not sure, but i ping quite a bit and never had a prob

yah I totally feel wat ur sayin.. i work for an ISP, so i use pinging/traces all day long & when i got fedup wit windoze the other day, i put redhat on here & see how i do on hyea


well anyway, u are correct.. that is the problem i'm having with it.. lemme see if i can paste sum shit..


this looks weird, but my internet works &all, just cant ping.. kinda crazy

ping www.yahoo.com
PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.109.117.110) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.yahoo.akadns.net ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5038ms

Strange...You should see all sent packets. Try something like
ping -c 4 blah
-c 4 tells ping to send 4 pings.

try pinging the ip and not the web address

ahh, you were the man on the -c that actually had it show me the packets just like i wanted to... NOW... how in the hell do i get it to where i aint gotta put the -c 4 to get it to show? any ideas?

& bosewich how come i have to use the IP? cuz u were correct also. am i just retarded or wat? hehe dont answer that!!

thadoc

You probably have a problem with DNS setting. It's probably slow and it takes much time for the query about the site you're pinging to get to you. When you ping using IP,, DNS servers are not used. Please check your DNS configuration (in /etc/resolv.conf). Make sure you have your ISP servers in.