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Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer.

Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer. The ping utility uses the network protocol, which is often filtered by firewalls, so its usefulness is usually limited in corporate environments.

Examples

ping -n 5 www.example.com #pings 5 times the server named www.example.com

A domain name or IP address can be used.

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Docker - Ubuntu - bash: ping: command not found

I've got a Docker container running Ubuntu which I did as follows: docker run -it ubuntu /bin/bash however it doesn't seem to have ping. E.g. bash: ping: command not found Do I need to install that? Seems a pretty basic command to be missing. I…
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How do I determine if a port is open on a Windows server?

I'm trying to install a site under an alternative port on a server, but the port may be closed by a firewall. Is there a way to ping out or in, on a specific port, to see if it is open?
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Pinging servers in Python

In Python, is there a way to ping a server through ICMP and return TRUE if the server responds, or FALSE if there is no response?
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ping response "Request timed out." vs "Destination Host unreachable"

When I ping an IP address, what is the difference between Request timed out and Destination host unreachable returned from the command?
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Preferred Java way to ping an HTTP URL for availability

I need a monitor class that regularly checks whether a given HTTP URL is available. I can take care of the "regularly" part using the Spring TaskExecutor abstraction, so that's not the topic here. The question is: What is the preferred way to ping a…
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How to test an Internet connection with bash?

How can an internet connection be tested without pinging some website? I mean, what if there is a connection but the site is down? Is there a check for a connection with the world?
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Using ping in c#

When I Ping a remote system with windows it says there is no reply, but when I ping with c# it says success. Windows is correct, the device is not connected. Why is my code able to successfully ping when Windows is not? Here is my code : Ping p1 =…
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Ping with timestamp on Windows CLI

On the Windows command prompt cmd, I use ping -t to 10.21.11.81 Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3889ms TTL=238 Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3738ms TTL=238 Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3379ms TTL=238 Are there any…
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Leave only two decimal places after the dot

public void LoadAveragePingTime() { try { PingReply pingReply = pingClass.Send("logon.chronic-domination.com"); double AveragePing = (pingReply.RoundtripTime / 1.75); label4.Text = (AveragePing.ToString() + "ms"); …
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How do I timestamp every ping result?

Ping returns this by default: 64 bytes from 203.173.50.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=57.746 ms Is there some way I can get it to add the timestamp? For example, Mon 21 May 2012 15:15:37 EST | 64 bytes from 203.173.50.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244…
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Checking host availability by using ping in bash scripts

I want to write a script, that would keep checking if any of the devices in network, that should be online all day long, are really online. I tried to use ping, but if [ "`ping -c 1 some_ip_here`" ] then echo 1 else echo 0 fi gives 1 no matter…
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Ping a site in Python?

How do I ping a website or IP address with Python?
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How to ping an IP address

I am using this part of code to ping an ip address in java but only pinging localhost is successful and for the other hosts the program says the host is unreachable. I disabled my firewall but still having this problem public static void…
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PHP: Why isn't exec() returning output?

I'm writing a PHP script to be used to check for network connections with Linux shell command ping calling it with PHP's exec():
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How to ping ubuntu guest on VirtualBox

I have an VM (VirtualBox) with Ubuntu. Host machine is Windows 7. How can I ping my Ubuntu from host and vice versa? Trying to set "Bridged" connection type in VM settings but there is no effect, I only lose my internet connection in Ubuntu.
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