As far as I know, ping can test a given port. If you ping the server via the ip address and it times out, then you have network-level issues (not related to SQL Server probably) that should be addressed there.
As far as I know, ping can’t test a given port. If you ping the server via the ip address and it times out, then you have network-level issues (not related to SQL Server probably) that should be addressed there. I’m not a network expert by any means, but I’d think there would be clues in the system event viewer of the server. If you wanted to go very low-tech, you could have a workstation run a command file containing something like this: :Start DATE /T >>PingLog.txt TIME /T >>PingLog.txt PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xx >>PingLog.txt GOTO Start That would run until cancelled (with Ctrl-Break), and write the date, time and PING results to a log file which could then be viewed to determine exactly when the server stopped responding. Hope this helps.
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