Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view • Hacker News Board

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by markhan-nping » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

1f60c wrote: post #28

markhan-nping wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, I'm the developer of Nping, I'm glad you're interested in Nping, forgive me for using translation software to write this content, usually a domain name itself will be resolved to more than one ip address, Nping uses the output of the system command Ping

Oh gosh, I'm so sorry. My comment wasn't meant as criticism of you or Nping; I had just never seen a DNS server intentionally return obviously incorrect results before.

This may be a misunderstanding, it's the first time I've encountered this problem and it's helped me to learn more, thanks

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by 29athrowaway » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

The new generation has to rediscover gnuplot and ministat.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by markhan-nping » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:32 PM UTC

ramon156 wrote: post #35

Shorel wrote: post #31

Rename it to table ping.

tping !

That's a nice name, but I'll have to sacrifice my Chinese pun.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by markhan-nping » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:11 PM UTC

amarshall wrote: post #40

alpn wrote: post #37

Another interesting tool in this space is trippy, which ‘combines the functionality of traceroute and ping’ https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy

There’s also the somewhat similar mtr https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

As other comments say, It’s a bit of a crowded market…

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by AlisaWang » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

It's really an interesting idea; I'll try it.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by natdempk » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:18 PM UTC

Random question, but how consistent should you expect to get pings to be over consumer internet to something like google? Single-digit ms variance? Few ms? 10's of ms? Always kind of curious for trying to optimize my network setup at home.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by dietsche » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:26 PM UTC

natdempk wrote: post #46

Random question, but how consistent should you expect to get pings to be over consumer internet to something like google? Single-digit ms variance? Few ms? 10's of ms? Always kind of curious for trying to optimize my network setup at home.

you can get it down to nearly zero using OpenWRT and configuring SQM. Use https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat to measure and tune until you get an A+ result.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by rfoo » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

raphman wrote: post #20

1f60c wrote: post #9

I wonder why www.google.com resolved to 31.13.94.37, which IPinfo tells me belongs to AS32934 Facebook, Inc. https://ipinfo.io/31.13.94.37

Also, the 'apple.com' IP address in the screenshot (221.194.154.187) belongs to a Chinese company. The developer seems to be located in China. You are seeing the Great Firewall in action: > The GFW does not have a unique technique of censorship. One of its strengths is to combine several techniques. One of them is the generation, by the network itself (and not by a lying resolver), of bogus DNS responses. You ask for…

> You are seeing the Great Firewall in action

Why? It's just that Apple has CDNs in China. Yes, as long as you do all the bureaucracy nonsense and comply to censorship you can do that.

e6858.e19.s.tl88.net resolves to 221.194.154.187. tl88.net is the domain for a CDN vendor mainly operating in China.

And it does serve www.apple.com content with actual www.apple.com TLS cert.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by teddyh » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:48 PM UTC

HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #33

markhan-nping wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks ~ I named it because of the pun in Chinese at the time, so maybe in the future I'll consider using a binary like pping.

pping already exists too. It’s a bit of a crowded market…

There’s:

• 2ping https://www.finnie.org/software/2ping/>

• fping https://www.fping.org/>

• hping http://www.hping.org/>

• nping https://nmap.org/>

• oping https://noping.cc/documentation/oping/>

There’s also qping, tping and rping, but they are not implementing ping functionality, but are tools for checking the status of specific remote services.

Re: Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

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Post by linsomniac » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:56 PM UTC

Wooo, Windows support! Availability of network diagnostics tools in Windows has been problematic, particularly for very infrequent use. There are some good looking ones for purchase, but it's hard to purchase when we don't usually need it.

For a while, largely related I think to just not having enough bandwidth at our office, but also partly because our coax on the Xfinity cablemodem was sketchy, we were not infrequently having issues, and the majority of my coworkers are on Windows. ping and tracert aren't very good tools for finding out what is going on with intermitant networking issues, especially when it might also be people's home wifi from WFH. There were times I just wished they could run mtr.

Over the last year or so I've been seeing more Windows tools available, which has been great!