Ping is the term used to find out the amount of time it takes a packet to go to a remote computer and back. The following tutorials will show you how. This is useful, for example, to check if a site is down.
That concludes the tutorial. Pinging can be used to also trigger nasty tricks. In the past, in the days of windows 95, Ping had the infinite argument which could be used to crash a server. Nowadays that glitch has been fixed.
- First, go to the start menu and click Run, or if you have vista, type it in the search box and press enter:
- Then, you should have a screen like this:
- Type "ping", a space, and then the IP to ping to. 127.0.0.1 represents a local ping (to yourself):
- After a few seconds there should bea few new lines, like this. You can use the "exit" command to close the command windows.
That concludes the tutorial. Pinging can be used to also trigger nasty tricks. In the past, in the days of windows 95, Ping had the infinite argument which could be used to crash a server. Nowadays that glitch has been fixed.
