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Originally Posted by nasser
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For Debian-Armel-Jessie VM:
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Ping 8.8.8.8
<After some time I pressed Ctrl-C>
38 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 37198ms
cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 10.0.2.3
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The command did what you told it to do, transmit a ping forever.
You probably wanted:
ping -c <count> where-ever
- - - -
I have seen 'ping' utilities where the default was one ping.
(Windows maybe? OS2? something I never use any longer.)
But the *nix ping defaults to continuous until stopped.