Fri, 29 Dec 2006

Network Troubleshooting Article

It's been a while since I last wrote an article, but I've just published a new one on troubleshooting networking. It's based on a couple of emails I sent to a mailing list helping someone with their networking problem. I decided to clean it up a bit and publish it. It is mostly for finding where the problem lies, rather than fixing the issue, but I would be grateful for any comments you have, particularly if you think I've missed any obvious steps.

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Under heading 'ip networking' you still have a line that reads 'I'll let you work thought this email before we move onto dealing with routing and DNS.'
Posted by ben at Sat Dec 30 15:38:35 2006
In my experience two things tend to go wrong
- incorrect DNS settings
- incorrect netmasks
So many times I have seen people test "ping blah.blah.com" and wonder why it doesn't work.

You have correctly suggested pinging a host by IP but it might be worth spelling out why you do that.

I would add a ping to a host on the same local network by IP address.
Posted by Andrew Black at Sat Dec 30 17:18:16 2006

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