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SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 BY JUGAL SHAH

Network Troubleshooting Dos Commands

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Network Troubleshooting Dos Commands

PING
Ping is the most important troubleshooting command and it checks the connectivity with the other
computers. For example your system’s IP address is 10.10.10.10 and your network servers’ IP address is
10.10.10.1 and you can check the connectivity with the server by using the Ping command in following
format.

At DOS prompt type Ping 10.10.10.1 and press enter

If you get the reply from the server then the connectivity is ok and if you get the error message like this
“Request time out” this means the there is some problem in the connectivity with the server.

IPCONFIG
IPconfig is another important command in Windows. It shows the IP address of the computer and also
it shows the DNS, DHCP, Gateway addresses of the network and subnet mask.

At DOS prompt type ipconfig and press enter to see the IP address of your computer.

At DOS prompt type inconfig/all and press enter to see the detailed information.

NSLOOKUP
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NSLOOKUP
NSLOOKUP is a TCP/IP based command and it checks domain name aliases, DNS records, operating
system information by sending query to the Internet Domain Name Servers. You can resolve the errors
with the DNS of your network server

HOSTNAME
Hostname command shows you the computer name.

At DOS prompt type Hostname and press enter

NETSTAT
NETSTAT utility shows the protocols statistics and the current established TCP/IP connections in the
computer.

NBTSTAT
NBTSTAT helps to troubleshoot the NETBIOS name resolutions problems.

ARP
ARP displays and modifies IP to Physical address translation table that is used by the ARP protocols.

FINGER
Finger command is used to retrieve the information about a user on a network.

TRACERT
Tracert command is used to determine the path of the remote system. This tool also provides the
number of hops and the IP address of each hop. For example if you want to see that how many hops
(routers) are involved to reach any URL and what’s the IP address of each hop then use the following
command.

At command prompt type tracert www.yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com/) you will see a list of all
the hops and their IP addresses.

TRACEROUTE
Traceroute is a very useful network debugging command and it is used in locating the server that is
slowing down the transmission on the internet and it also shows the route between the two systems

ROUTE
Route command allows you to make manual entries in the routing table.

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WEBSTER | July 28, 2009 at 9:27 am

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send me this page plez

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Ashis Saha | August 21, 2009 at 11:24 am

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Pl. Send me all commands for Network related or hardware

Pl. Send me all commands for Network related or hardware

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jonathan narvaez | March 22, 2010 at 6:59 pm

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What are the three commands can be used to troubleshoot issues

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JShah | March 25, 2010 at 6:32 am

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You can use below commands

IPConfig/All
NetStat
IPConfig/Release
Ping

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Nawal kishor shah | January 30, 2011 at 11:19 am

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sir i am system administrator. i need some support of urs. so please help me. i am waiting for ur
positive response

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Jugal Shah | February 1, 2011 at 6:44 am

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Sure Nawal… I will guide you. Please post your question here so it will be helpful to other
readers as well.

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slowrunning | March 28, 2011 at 4:50 pm

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XP starts up way to slow, and internet is said to be ok on server end (wish I could check) because it
is to darn slow. I want be able to work from home. me seaches are taking me all over the place and
not really finding good help. Would like to clean up system through Dos. Is there a real place on the
web that help me? Love to Run fast thanks

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Jugal Shah | April 5, 2011 at 5:59 am

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you can follow few checklist. 1. Delete temporary files using del *.tmp/f/s
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you can follow few checklist. 1. Delete temporary files using del *.tmp/f/s
2. Disable the unused services
3. Remove the unused software
4. Check for the config file and startup option and remove the .exe which are not required.

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muhammed aslam pm | July 18, 2011 at 9:07 am

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SIR
I’m Aslam i’m a system administrator. pls send me network related and hardware related trouble
shooting commands pls

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Jugal Shah | July 27, 2011 at 6:35 am

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you can try systeminfo, ping, ipconfing, net stats, tracealert etc for your day to day
troubleshooting. focus more on configuration manager and event viewer log…

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cedarman | October 30, 2011 at 5:31 am

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i just want to know how i can see what the user doing in the network ..like i need a comm in dos
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i just want to know how i can see what the user doing in the network ..like i need a comm in dos
that let me see what they did for the last week

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kvezhi | May 30, 2012 at 2:19 pm

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Hi,
When I enter the tracert command , all i get is this message “tracert is not recognized as an internal
or external command”. What do you think is the problem?

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Jugal Shah | June 7, 2012 at 9:40 pm

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Check whether it is installed or not. Which OS version you are using… for example httocfg.exe
is now NETSH in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

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sahil | June 19, 2012 at 9:23 pm

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this commands are not working in win7 plz help me or tell how to do it

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