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It's too early for troubleshooting (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by allywilson@lemmy.ml to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 76 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Hey, it worked. This is just as valid to prove that the internet connection is up.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Still don't know if it's ip, dhcp or dns.

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[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Its always DNS

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

Except for when it isn’t, and even then it sometimes is.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago*

It’s not DNS

There’s no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

If the test passes, all of these are fine. If it fails, well, you got to dig then.

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

DNS may not be fine tho. You may have ddg cached

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Great to use DuckDuckGo. Don’t want to rely on Google for anything.

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 20 points 7 months ago

For sure I wouldn't use Google to ping Google.

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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Isn't 8.8.8.8 from Google?

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That’s the joke

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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I want sure... Whoosh to myself then

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 7 months ago

Woooosh is with 4 o's

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[–] Syndication@lemmy.today 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As long as it's noai.duckduckgo.com

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[–] Zubgub@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

There is also lite.duckduckgo.com and html.duckduckgo.com for javascript free variants

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago

Those two are great services.

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[–] parzival@lemmy.org 1 point 7 months ago

I prefer to use the normal one set to only gen the ai when I click it bc then you keep the option

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