[BSD-INDIA] What is wrong with Google servers?

[Arun Sharma]

On Dec 28, 2007 3:03 AM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> # ping -c 20 google.com
> [...]
> --- google.com ping statistics ---
> 20 packets transmitted, 17 packets received, 15.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 305.474/323.224/395.480/22.983 ms

Could you repeat with ping -c 20 www.google.com?

google.com normally redirects to www.google.com, which DNS servers
resolve to a server that's close to the requesting IP address.
You don't get that with google.com.

In the end, what matters is: are you experiencing a bad quality of
service when a user types a query into google.com? This may or may not
be the same as what ping/ICMP show. Being able to show packet loss (if
any) when your users are using google might be more useful.

 -Arun