The 'ping' command on most flavors of Unix has a nifty little feature that lets you select which port to ping on. It's handy when troubleshooting network applications. For example, if some wierd app.

“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

Apple unveiled Ping yesterday at the company's annual music event in San Francisco. The new social network works as a music-centered community that exists within iTunes. The announcement coincides ...

Network troubleshooting tools such as ping, extended ping, and traceroute are fundamental to modern IP networking. They are taught early in CCNA-level ...