| GripperDon |
I am not involved in the discussion in any way, if I was I would have PM'ed as requested. However since the number of reads is so large I had a question that a large audiance might be the best to answer.
I have noticed in the last two days that the forum board seems sluggish, slow to come up and update, the other site forums I am on are acting OK. Are there any more problems with the server or whatever it is?
Or is it just me? |
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| Enforcer |
| Not from Oxnard Ca Don. Amazingly quick on this hotel link. Course I think the site is hosted near here. Try a tracert and ping or one of the automated proggies they have now. Could be a link somewhere is having problems. |
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| GripperDon |
| But I am glad it's OK. |
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| Enforcer |
oh its easy just open a command prompt window in xp its start-programs-accessories-command prompt. Type in "tracert www.nissanmurano.org".
It will list all the IP nodes/routers between you and the site, and a relative ping time to each. Then you can ping each one individually like "ping 127.0.0.1". You can also put a -t on the end to ping continuously. You can also use a redirect to save the ping results to a file. Comes in handy to send to ISPs to help them track down problems. A no-reply in a ping is a dropped packet. |
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| njjoe |
Enforcer-
I concur with Don's assessment. The forum has been relatively slow today.
I did what you said and used the "tracert www.nissanmurano.org" command. From Southern New Jersey it showed 24 hops, with the shortest time listed as 1ms and the longest 229ms. In your opinion is this good or bad (I have no clue)?
Thanx in advance.
-njjoe |
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| GripperDon |
| I got 15 hops mostly 1ms and a few at 6 and 7ms and the forum seemed just fine now, Maybe it just needed to be jogged a bit. Let it know we are checking on it. :2: |
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| Enforcer |
| Well yeah I think thats pretty decent for that many hops. From here I've got 14 hops and 113ms average. The key is to make sure no one node is contributing much more than the others. The faster the link the lower the ping. If on DSL or cable your first hop would be in the <10ms range. If on dialup your first hop may be in the 100-200ms range. There also used to be a site for monitoring the "health" of the internet. Lemme see if I can find that. |
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| Enforcer |
lol well believe it or not...I have actually had success on getting windows to relearn its arp doing pings, but in this case naaa :D. Routers sometimes have many connections to them and they will load balance and learn new less crowded and faster routes to send packets. You may notice for example the tracert list will change between the morning and midnight. THis is normal, those routers are doing what they should be doing. But your httping is sending enough packets for them to do that without the icmp pings and stuff. icmp is given the lowest priority on routers but still usefull for diagnostics cause if the router doesn't have time to service the little stuff then its a good bet its working pretty hard. new routers have been harded against icmp dos attacks and there is an etiquette to pinging. A few default packet size pings are cool nobody takes notice. And sometimes you will find routes or sites that reject any icmp. Still, handy tools when used appropriately.
Here are a couple internet health monitoring sites:
http://www.internetpulse.net/
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ |
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