Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/12/06 21:32

pb648174 (google@webpaul.net) writes:
> As per previous posts in this thread, I have added the ping statement
> to the server in question to the backup script.. Here we are a few
> weeks later with the same intermittent
> problem, ping works fine.
>
> Pinging dbserver [192.168.23.154] with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 192.168.23.154: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
>
> Reply from 192.168.23.154: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
>
> Reply from 192.168.23.154: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
>
> Reply from 192.168.23.154: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
>
> Ping statistics for 192.168.23.154:
>
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
>
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>
> Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
>
> 8:00:19.85
> Timeout expired
> 8:00:37.23

When I was able to get "Timeout Expired" to my server at work, I was
still able to ping my machine.

As I've said before, I suspect that the issue is related to Windows
Networking, Active Directory or something else I have very little
knowledge of.


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