Is the host localhost always available for the own system?
Is it always possible to ping localhost and it resolves to 127.0.0.1? I know Windows Vista, XP, Ubuntu and Debian do it but does everyone do it? ...
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Tool to monitor network connectivity in Windows
What tool would you recommend to monitor the connectivity status of a machine, this is if a given machine it is able to connect to some web servers over time. It should be able to log the status. There is a long list of freeware at http://ping-monitors.qarchive.org/ ...
TraceRoute and Ping in C#
Does anyone have C# code handy for doing a ping and traceroute to a target computer? I am looking for a pure code solution, not what I'm doing now, which is invoking the ping.exe and tracert.exe program and parsing the output. I would like something more robust. ...
Proxy for command line utilities in Win XP
How do I get command line utilities like ping to use the default proxy in Windows XP. proxycfg -u sets the proxy to the default (IE) proxy alright, but it doesn't seem to be working. Update: I am behind a proxy and would like a way to check if a site is up or not hence trying to use ping! Also would like a way to telnet (without using ...
Ping Failure Without IPv6
Our user interface is communicating with another application on a different machine, often connecting using domain names. On our network, when IPv6 is installed, DNS name resolution works great, all machines can be pinged and contacted fine. When IPv6 is uninstalled, pinging the same DNS names returns an IP address on some distant sub...
Ping always succeeds, cant easily check uptime using ping on a url
Im getting frustrated because of OpenDNS and other services (ie: roadrunner) that now always returns a ping even if you type any invalid url ie: lkjsdaflkjdsjf.com --- I had created software for my own use that would ping a url to verify if the site was up or not. This no longer works. Does anyone have any ideas about this? Requiremen...
How to easy determine if a port is open on an 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? ...
How to check return packet contents in ICMP Ping / Echo?
When validating ping echo's, it seems that utilities / libraries often only check the checksum of the packet, and don't actually confirm that the payload sent out matches the payload that was returned. For instance, Wireshark's ICMP parser only checks for bad checksums, and that's all that Ruby's net-ruby checks as well. I'm debugging ...
Ping a site in ruby?
What replacements are available for pinging an ip address in Ruby? The stdlib "ping" library seems to be pretty limited in functionality. I'm not interested in rolling my own code here. Are there good gems available? Should I just suck it up and live with it? (I'm coding in Ruby 1.8.6 on Linux) ...
Get latency from host in C++
Using C++, I would like to use a command/class to get the latency time from pinging a host to use in my program. I tried using the ping command but there was no easy way to gather the time since its included with other statistical information. I was hoping for an easier approach. ...
Send a ping to each IP on a subnet
Is there a command line based way to send pings to each computer in a subnet? Like for (int i = 1;i < 254; i++) ping(192.168.1.i) to enforce arp resolution? ...
How to determine latency of a remote server through the browser
I run a couple of game tunnelling servers and would like to have a page where the client can run a ping on all the servers and find out which is the most responsive. As far as I can see there seems to be no proper way to do this in JavaScript, but I was thinking, does anybody know of a way to do this in flash or some other client browser...
How to ping a computer if the computer name starts with dash "-"
How to ping a computer if the computer name starts with dash "-" ...
Unable to compare ping times on fly
I tried the following command unsuccessfully sdiff <(ping www.nato.int) <(ping www.reuters.com) Is there any way to have a real-time comparison between ping times? ...
How can I write a linux bash script, that tells me which computer are on in my LAN ?
How can I write a linux bash script, that tells me which computers are ON in my LAN ? It would help if I could give it as input a range of IP's. ...
Looping through chars, generating words and checking if domain exists
Hello Is there any way to generate words based on characters and checking if a domain exists with this word (ping)? What I want to do is to generate words based on some characters, example "abcdefgh", and then ping generatedword.com to check if it exists. ...
What's the easiest to remember publicly pingable IP address?
For frequent network troubleshooting purposes, do you know a publicly pingable host with an easy to remember IP address (such as 1.2.3.4)? ...
Is it possible to measure bandwidth using ping?
Can we find the internet bandwidth from the time it takes to ping a server if yes how is it done ...
Regarding Latency In Ping
What is meant by latency which is returned by ping ...
Bandwidth from Latency
DUPE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/729146/how-to-programmatically-check-internet-bandwidth-in-vc Can we find the bandwidth from the latency of ping .If yes how is it done ...