PING MESSAGE: Time to live exceeded

[Jojo Castro]

Hi all,

Can someone tell me what does the following messages from ping command means?

64 bytes from 10.120.82.19: icmp_seq=54 ttl=125 time=33.1 ms
64 bytes from 10.120.82.19: icmp_seq=55 ttl=125 time=35.6 ms
From 10.123.7.8 icmp_seq=56 Time to live exceeded <===========
From 10.123.7.8 icmp_seq=57 Time to live exceeded <===========
64 bytes from 10.120.82.19: icmp_seq=58 ttl=125 time=24.2 ms
64 bytes from 10.120.82.19: icmp_seq=59 ttl=125 time=23.6 ms
64 bytes from 10.120.82.19: icmp_seq=60 ttl=125 time=23.6 ms

traceroute result
traceroute to 10.123.7.8 (10.123.7.8), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets
1 10.121.50.66 (10.121.50.66) 0.443 ms 0.340 ms 0.382 ms
2 10.121.50.14 (10.121.50.14) 0.316 ms * 0.946 ms

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

See the explanation here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_Time_Exceeded

regards,
ivan

[Jojo Castro]

Thanks for the article. There was indeed a fibercut affecting the connection between the host and the client.

Thanks again!