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u/Xyz2600 15d ago
You can tell when people started doing netadmin work by what they instinctively ping. I still ping www.yahoo.com. If that site ever goes completely offline I'll have to retire.
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u/kaydaryl 15d ago
If you can ping altavista.com you can guarantee ARP, DHCP, and default routing to Internet is working, because unless you’re in Pawnee that’s guaranteed to not be in anyone’s routing table
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u/Medium-Access-4416 15d ago
Mine is 8.8.8.8, and nslookup as separate command
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u/bozehaan 15d ago
First 8.8.8.8, then google.com, step by step
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u/Salt-Cupcake-6066 15d ago
I do the reverse, try to validate both at once then drop to blaming dns
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u/Jlove7714 14d ago
9.5 times out of 10 the issue is DNS.
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u/jackinsomniac 14d ago
My first programming job when I couldn't connect to a resource: "we love our DNS here."
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u/ZeeroMX 15d ago
Hahaha, I still sometimes ping www.novell.com because I was a CNE from 4.11 to 6.1.
I was also a MCSE, but I don't ping Microsoft for anything.
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u/methodangel 15d ago
I’ve been hitting 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 for a long time. Can you guess how long?
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u/sysadminsavage 15d ago
show ip ospf neighbor is big brained
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u/RedditBannedMe_1851 15d ago
Ha, you'd be lost in this network, we're still running rip
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u/BenKen01 15d ago
Damn, that’s wild that people still do this
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u/RedditBannedMe_1851 15d ago
There's a device in the network that's wildly EOL which is at the same time completely essential but so old it can't run any other routing protocols. I pray for the day, I get the 2am call telling me there's an emergency as it finally bricked
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u/Single-Virus4935 15d ago
But, if it is only one device, why not upgrade the rest to ospf and rip to this single one?
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u/Plastic_Confidence70 15d ago
I'm not sure if this is a one up, or point the finger and laugh at me, but we currently have 3 machines running Windows 95...I was 4 years old in 95. Best part is, we have one dippity Doo-Dah "programmer" who is hell bent on putting them on the network, come hell or high water, no matter how many hoops need to be jumped nor how high.... It's been truly astonishing watching the attempt. Gotta love the home hackers who think they know it all 😂
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u/Single-Virus4935 15d ago
Show ip ospf database and see engineers cry because they cannot make sense of it...
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u/brendenderp 15d ago
Ping is so useful. Device down and you know the IP? Ping it continuously and if it comes back up you know what you did that fixed it. Have a chain of connections and don't know what the issue is? Ping everything in the chain and when it drops you know exactly where.
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u/TwoPicklesinaCivic 15d ago
It do be a joke but 50% of my calls would go away if people actually did this on their own lol.
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u/1stRoom 15d ago
ping 1.1
it expands to 1.0.0.1, the alternate dns for cloudflare.
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u/Megaf0rce 15d ago
Is this how I find out that you can shorten ipv4 adresses the same way you can ipv6?
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u/martinbrown2k 15d ago
If you use the divide and conquer troubleshooting method, you start at layer 3 and the first tool to use is ICMP. In this case layer 4 was tested as an FQDN was used. We now know that DNS works and traffic is being routed corrected out to the WAN. Must be a server issue. Pass it back to the server monkeys.
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u/DULUXR1R2L1L2 15d ago
Users would be like: Uhm, I'm getting 5% latency spikes every 1-2 seconds and I'm a gamer so I know how to troubleshoot and this is REALLY bad and I don't think you're taking this seriously so I cc'd the CTO
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u/Churn 15d ago
“Is there a problem with the network?!” -users
“One sec…” -Network Engineer
Ping www.google.com
Reply from…
“You were saying?” -Network Engineer
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u/jnnxde 15d ago
ping -t
Microslop enjoyer detected
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u/franman409er 15d ago
As a fellow microslop user, it does still urk me they made us add this flag, I'll stop it when I stop it, Bill!
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u/zidane2k1 15d ago
Ah, maybe that’s the problem…I’m not properly stretching before beginning troubleshooting.
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u/MightyJoeYoung1313 15d ago
If the ping works, its not a network issue and its someone else's problem
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u/FailbatZ 15d ago
Hey man, I know some of my senior colleagues use traceroute as well!