The day my ping took countermeasures
Key takeaways
- Once my holidays had passed, I found myself reluctantly reemerging into the world of the living.
- I was not expecting ping to take countermeasures that early on in a day.
- Once I got over the initial confusion, I took a deep breath and collected my thoughts.
Once my holidays had passed, I found myself reluctantly reemerging into the world of the living. I powered on a corporate laptop, scared to check on my email inbox. However, before turning on the browser, obviously, I had to run a ping. Debugging the network is a mandatory first step after a boot, right? As expected, the network was perfectly healthy but what caught me off guard was this message:
I was not expecting ping to take countermeasures that early on in a day. Gosh, I wasn t expecting any countermeasures that Monday!
Once I got over the initial confusion, I took a deep breath and collected my thoughts. You don t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out what has happened. I m really fast - I started ping before the system NTP daemon synchronized the time. In my case, the computer clock was rolled backward, confusing ping.