Forum Home
Press F1
 
Thread ID: 136527 2014-03-10 03:53:00 Odd local pings on Telecom Pace router wratterus (105) Press F1
Post ID Timestamp Content User
1369889 2014-03-10 03:53:00 Got an odd situation with a network - nothing fancy, they are on VDSL, using the Telecom supplied Pace gateway. 'Pace' of crap if you ask me... haha but anyway...

They were having some odd network related issues - I thought initially it may have been the modem, so I was checking a few things, pinging etc and came across something that I thought was a little odd.

5609

When the IP address of a PC was pinged - in this case 192.168.1.139, the pings were returned in under 1ms, as per usual. When the name of the PC was pinged (in this case office2) the replies took 222ms, and seemed to come from the modem rather than the PC itself.

It's not that anything wasn't working, but they were suffering from some network slowness issues and I wondered if this had anything to do with it. It didn't seem slow at all to me - I copied a few files around and was easily getting over 90mb/sec transfer over the gigabit LAN.

Does anyone else have one of these Pace modems they can check this same thing on, or could anyone comment on if there is actually anything wrong here?

Thanks! :) 		wratterus (105)
1369890 2014-03-10 04:31:00 Check the domain name the router is setup for. It'll be using DNS, so where you're asking for "office2" it's going out to the world asking for "office2.gateway.pace.net".
You can also grab WinMTR ( winmtr.net ) to see exactly _where_ the pings are going. My money says they're going to the US:


|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| gw.vadacom.co.nz - 0 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| lo0.internet.ivpn.pe13.telstraclear.net - 10 | 11 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 44 | 21 |
| ie1-g-0-0-0.telstraclear.net - 0 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 58 | 18 |
| ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net - 10 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 17 |
| unknown.telstraglobal.net - 10 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 20 |
|i-0-0-4-0.tlot-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net - 10 | 11 | 10 | 143 | 145 | 148 | 145 |
| i-0-4-0-5.eqla01.bi.telstraglobal.net - 0 | 15 | 15 | 144 | 147 | 193 | 145 |
| cogent-peer.eqla01.pr.telstraglobal.net - 10 | 11 | 10 | 149 | 149 | 151 | 149 |
| be2181.mpd21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com - 0 | 15 | 15 | 149 | 150 | 154 | 154 |
| be2066.ccr22.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com - 0 | 15 | 15 | 184 | 185 | 189 | 185 |
| be2144.ccr21.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 188 | 189 | 195 | 189 |
| be2012.ccr21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 188 | 188 | 191 | 188 |
| be2157.ccr22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 200 | 200 | 203 | 200 |
| be2079.ccr21.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 214 | 215 | 218 | 215 |
| te4-1.mag01.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 213 | 273 | 446 | 446 |
| No response from host - 100 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| csr01-v100.bra.tucows.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 214 | 227 | 329 | 329 |
| url.hover.com - 10 | 11 | 10 | 214 | 215 | 219 | 215 |
|________________________________________________| ______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider 		Chilling_Silence (9)
1369891 2014-03-10 04:52:00 You got a :waughh::waughh: Router :D

Just did a test as per Chills theory, doesn't matter if I ping a computer on the LAN by name or IP, the results are exactly the same. ( the name is Server - how many "servers" are on the interweb thing :p ) ( not using a pace though) 		wainuitech (129)
1369892 2014-03-10 12:44:00 Yeah different routers handle DNS differently. His router is appending the domain name of "gateway.pace.net" to it. Check in the routers Domain / DNS settings to remove it. Chilling_Silence (9)
1369893 2014-03-11 20:12:00 I had this issue and posted here a while back pressf1.pcworld.co.nz

Telecom replaced the modem and still had the same issue. I never investigated if there was any setting to change. I decided I shouldn't have to and quicker to install a domestic Telecom modem and worked fine since.

As far as I know the 2 Pace modems are still onsite and never to be used again.

If there is a known fix by changing a DNS/Domain then I might have a look next time I'm onsite. 		berryb (99)
1