[plug] no ping

[Mark Saxon]

raven at themaw.net wrote:

>On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mark Saxon wrote:
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>>Their ping tool is browser based and I really don't want to be going to 
>>their
>>site every time I want to ping or test a host. What Linux options do I 
>>have for
>>testing a host in that case?
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>nmap and they'll hate you for it. He .. He .. He!
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>Ian
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Yep I can see why they might find it annoying.  It does tell me that 
they don't appear to
have an open port 80.

Which I guess could explain why I can't reach them?  Or does it?

I would usually just use ping to test if a host was accepting any 
requests or
if my own ISP had chucked a wobbly.  Which would be more typical.

Mark



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