Ping Times to Google

Here’s what happens when www.google.com is replaced with google.com on a Linode server. I’m using Telegraf ⇒ InfluxDB ⇒ Grafana.

# ping -c 4 www.google.com
PING www.google.com (74.125.141.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vl-in-f104.1e100.net (74.125.141.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=43.1 ms
64 bytes from vl-in-f104.1e100.net (74.125.141.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=42.8 ms
64 bytes from vl-in-f104.1e100.net (74.125.141.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=42.8 ms
64 bytes from vl-in-f104.1e100.net (74.125.141.104): icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=42.8 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 42.835/42.915/43.104/0.234 ms

# ping -c 4 google.com
PING google.com (216.58.218.142) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from dfw25s08-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.218.142): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=0.711 ms
64 bytes from dfw25s08-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.218.142): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=0.689 ms
64 bytes from dfw25s08-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.218.142): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=0.648 ms
64 bytes from dfw25s08-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.218.142): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=0.669 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.648/0.679/0.711/0.029 ms