3/28/2024 0 Comments Ping loopback infinite ping![]() ![]() This page is often auto-generated by monitoring tools and they are more accurate. In many cases, when you rent a VPS, the provider also has a service status page that you can look up. Home networks are far more often not working correctly compared to datacenter networks and VPS servers.Ī VPS can of course go down, but using ICMP packages is not going to tell you if that is the case or not. bad internet connectivity, a modem/router that has issues, will not be able to send out the ICMP request giving a bad request response which, given that you ping your VPS may give you a trigger that the VPS is down, but actually it was your own internet that was not working. In addition, if you ping from your computer, and somewhere in your network, there are issues: eg. Pinging will not tell you if your VPS is running or not. ![]() Often, datacenters will have smart switches in their network that detect ICMP requests and those switches will respond and acknowledge your ICMP request. The answer is going to be no, pinging is not a good way to monitor connectivity to a VPS, if it is your goal to know if the VPS is up or down.Ī ping (or ICMP request) in this question sends a small packet from your computer, to your router, to the internet, to the datacenter, to their routers and possibly to a server and finally to your virtual instance on that server. The comment exchange made me think more about the question and that eventually lead to a train of thought warranting an actual answer. ![]()
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