[ale] can anyone explain this?

[Christopher Bergeron]

I have a few boxen on my internal home network (192.168.0.x); among them are
a few linux boxes and 1 lowly win 2k box.

Here's the inconceiveable part:  My work domain:  bass-associates.com just
recently changed Network Solutions DNS entries to point at _our_ work DNS
server.  Now, when I try to ping my work domain from my win box at
home(which gateways out of a linux box) I get this:
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C:\>time
The current time is: 23:11:26.29
Enter the new time:

C:\>ping www.bass-associates.com

Pinging www.bass-associates.com [12.108.240.165] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 12.108.240.165: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=241
Reply from 12.108.240.165: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=241
Reply from 12.108.240.165: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=241
Reply from 12.108.240.165: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=241

Ping statistics for 12.108.240.165:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 30ms, Maximum =  40ms, Average =  32ms
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Yet from my linux box (the gateway for the winbox), I get this:

[root at proto1 /]# date; ping www.bass-associates.com -c 3
Fri Dec 14 23:01:30 EST 2001
PING www.bass-associates.com (12.108.240.165) from 24.98.82.217 : 56(84)
bytes of data.

--- www.bass-associates.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 66% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 74.240/74.240/74.240/0.000 ms
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The linux box(gateway) is getting 66% packet loss, and the win box isn't!!!
DoH!!!
Has the win box somehow gotten more accurate(/recent) DNS info?  The linux
box (gateway) has it's clock set daily to the National Observatory / Naval
Atomic Clock so it's the accurate one.   I use the win2k box to browse, but
I use the linux for everything else [pron: important].  Could the winbox
have gotten DNS info from sites it browses to or something?  When I ping by
IP address, I get fast response time from _both_ machines.

This whole thing has me absolutely befuddled...
Does anyone have any clues/ideas/suggestions about what is going on?

Much respect in advance!
CB


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