PING question

Usually I get TTL=51 but today is says "expired in transit". Website is down. Besides the obvious that the packets expired....technically speaking, what does it mean?

thx

C:\>ping www.heatware.com

Pinging heatware.com [216.17.67.110] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.17.36.17: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 216.17.36.17: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 216.17.36.17: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 216.17.36.17: TTL expired in transit.

Ping statistics for 216.17.67.110:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

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Comments

Webmaster

It might be caused by a routing loop, causing the packets to 'run around in circles' (send from router to router and end up at the same router) until they die...

seth223uk

most likely split horizon problem or holddown timer perhaps? Used to prevent these loops from happening

henrock2

because you get around split horizon with the ping command. Im thinking maybe its routing loop, or just because the page is down, it searches or "pings" . And since there is no holddown or anything prevent it it will continue to go. Thats just my 2 cents