tenchi_63 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:19:22 +0000

What exactly is pinging? what is its use? Sorry, I was too lazy to start a new post. hehehe

texpostior — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:34:23 +0000

The point of routers is to find an available route, if one route fails they will try another. The fact that ICMP echo requests may be blocked in a router may mean that a ping route fails where a request on port 80 (http) gets through.

mairving — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:28:07 +0000

Ping is also not 100% reliable as some block ICMP (Ping) requests. Most hosts don't though.

fifeclub — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:05:15 +0000

It's been a few days now but when I posted, it was within 24 hours of pointing to the new IP. Looks okay now. I just thought it was wierd to have 100% loss but be able to load my page fine. Thanks everybody.

andy206uk — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:07:03 +0000

http://visualroute.visualware.co.uk is a really useful tool for doing nslookups via the web. (plus there are loads of international mirrors as well).

Will give you a good idea about the propogation of your DNS.

bja888 - re your sig: there are two 'l's in 'really'

mairving — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:57:09 +0000

It probably means that the DNS servers have not been fully propagated. How long has it been since you transferred. Also you should be doing traceroutes and nslookups.
tracert domainname.com
nslookup domainname.com

They will give you much more detailed information.

bja888 — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:25:27 +0000

I cant help you but i like the fight club icon