Debugging Techniques

• Understand problem
• Find the problem's cause (not the symptom)
• Fix the problem
• Use appropriate tools

• Successive elimination of possible causes (e.g. removing drivers)
• Successive refinement of possible causes (e.g. traceroute)

• ping
• traceroute / tracert
• nslookup
• strace / truss / apispy
• grep / locate / regedit
• "Use the source Luke"

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