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Difficulty: MediumUtilizing Command-Line Network Troubleshooting Utilities

A network administrator is troubleshooting an issue where client machines on the subnet 10.0.50.0/2410.0.50.0/24 cannot establish connections to an internal HTTPS portal hosted at 10.0.50.20010.0.50.200. The administrator runs the `netstat -an` utility directly on the destination server hosting the portal and receives the following output snippet:

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 10.0.50.200:443 10.0.50.45:51204 ESTABLISHED
UDP 0.0.0.0:500 *:*

To verify local network layer mapping on a client machine (10.0.50.4510.0.50.45) that is experiencing intermittent timeouts, which command-line utility should the technician use to inspect the cached IP-to-MAC address bindings?

  1. arp -aAnswer
  2. B
    nslookup 10.0.50.200
  3. C
    netstat -r
  4. D
    dig -x 10.0.50.200

Answer

The correct command to inspect cached IP-to-MAC address bindings on a local subnet is `arp -a`.
The `arp -a` command displays the host's Address Resolution Protocol cache table, which contains the dynamic and static mappings of IPv4 addresses to physical MAC addresses on the local network segment.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the troubleshooting objective
The requirement asks for a tool to examine local IP-to-MAC address (Layer 3 to Layer 2) resolution cache on a workstation.
Address resolution issues on a local Ethernet segment involve evaluating Layer 2 physical address mapping.
2
Evaluate the capabilities of the listed CLI utilities
`arp -a` displays the Address Resolution Protocol table containing mapped IP and MAC addresses.
ARP is specifically responsible for mapping IPv4 addresses to Ethernet MAC addresses on the local link.

Key Concept

Utilizing ARP and Diagnostic Utilities for Layer 2 / Layer 3 Boundary Verification
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