Hello! I’m trying to ping some lemmy instances to understand which one is the faster, so I’m just using the ping command:
$ ping lemmy.ml
PING lemmy.ml (54.36.178.108) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lemmy.ml (54.36.178.108): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=24.4 ms
ping lemmy.world
PING lemmy.world (135.181.143.230) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from static.230.143.181.135.clients.your-server.de (135.181.143.230): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=58.2 ms
but if I try with certain instances:
ping vlemmy.net
PING vlemmy.net (109.78.160.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
it just hangs there, forever. if I try to ctrl+C it, it displays
^C
--- vlemmy.net ping statistics ---
13 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 12267ms
why does this happens? I can perfectly visit vlemmy.net from my browser so I really can’t understand whay is this happening
I beg to differ. Not everyone’s use of the internet is limited to http(s) - ping is an invaluable tool to determine round trip times of the underlying network infrastructure & therefore assess e.g. the potential throughput of TCP based protocols for given window sizes. Also, to assess delay in UDP based communication.
Yeah that’s what I was saying though. OP was not measuring that, that’s my point.