It's often useful to gain a quick measure of a network's "real-world" performance. Pinging is a technique in which you send a predetermined amount of data to a specific IP address on your own network ...

Ping commands are very useful, but would-be attackers often use them to identify systems. To prevent that, we show you how to get your system to ignore these requests. The ping command sends one or ...

From containers and VPNs to VLANs and firewalls, Linux networking has become the backbone of modern home labs and servers. But no matter how advanced the setup, the same core commands keep showing up ...

I've been using Linux for what seems like forever. Over the years, I've noticed that I use the command line less and less, because the GUIs have just gotten so much better. Even still, there are ...

ping is a diagnostic tool used for verifying connectivity between two hosts on a network. It sends Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packets to a remote IP address and watches for ...

host 10.0.0.1<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>dig 10.0.0.1<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>nslookup 10.0.0.1 (I think this is deprecated)<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>mtr 10.0.0.1 (this will ping, traceroute, and lookup the name so should ...