On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:59:57 -0400 Timothy Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
List and network gurus...
I recently had a coworker tell me that we should *always* ping by *name*, *not* by number. The reason as explained is because the resolution takes place at a "higher level" on the OSI stack. And
pinging the number does nothing but "tell you that the 'connection' to the machine is okay."
Huh?! Isn't pinging by name just the same as pinging by number, only adding a step for the name resolution?
You're correct. Pinging by name will also test name resolution but the connectivity test is exactly the same.
Cheers, Sean
Whew. Thank God. I don't have to tell how frustrated I was when I became part of this conversation between the MCSE and PC Tech.
"What is this person talking about? Don't ping by number?! Has she lost it?"
I bothered my for several days and I had to post.
Needless to say, her suggestion may get her in trouble one day. Pinging by name may interfere with her debugging one day if WINS is down. And we have no /official/ internal DNS--I set up one on my Linux staging server, drawing some serious fire from the MCSE in question and recent whispers of marginalizing it when some new W2K domain controllers arrive. Oh well, I can surf to internal machines by name...she can't; refuses to use it, though 12 others in the department are. Maybe my DNS has cooties. ;)
Thanks a ton, Tim
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