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Ping Defined Ping Examples Server Vars More Humor

You've Been PINGED!!!

Did you really 'ping' my computer?
Well, ummmmmm, no, ummmmmmmmmmmm, not really..... But, we could have! We just wanted to show you that we can capture web stats. If you've made it to this page, then you either know what 'ping' is or you are curious and would like to find out....
What does 'PING' mean?
PING is an acronym for 'Packet Internet Groper' (or, sometimes, 'Packet Internet Gopher'). Ping is a basic internet program that lets you verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests. Ping is used diagnostically to ensure that a host computer you are trying to reach is actually operating. (For more info and stories on 'PING', click here: Ping Defined)
If my computer was not pinged, then why does the web page say 'ping...'?
It's a bit of humor. If you know what ping means or you recognized your IP address on the web page, then you may be curious as to why we are pinging your IP address. When you click on the hyperlink, you are brought to this page and you can read and enjoy the humor with us.
Anything else?
If you made it this far and you are amused, then we recommend that you click on the Web Dev Tools button at the top of each page and then click on Security Humor. (Or, click on the hyperlinks provided in this paragraph if do not want to take the scenic route...) If you enjoyed yourself, then tell your friends about our site.

Ping Defined

Ping is a basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests. The verb ping means the act of using the ping utility or command. Ping is used diagnostically to ensure that a host computer you are trying to reach is actually operating. If, for example, a user can't ping a host, then the user will be unable to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to send files to that host. Ping can also be used with a host that is operating to see how long it takes to get a response back.

Using ping, you can learn the number form of the IP address from the symbolic domain name. To find out the dot address (such as 205.245.172.72) for a given domain name, Windows users can go to their MS DOS prompt screen and enter: ping xxx.yyy where xxx is the second-level domain name like "whatis" and yyy is the top-level domain name like "com").

Loosely, ping means "to get the attention of" or "to check for the presence of" another party online. Ping operates by sending a packet to a designated address and waiting for a response. The computer acronym was contrived to match the submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse.

Ping can also refer to the process of sending a message to all the members of a mailing list requesting an ACK (acknowledgement code). This is done before sending e-mail in order to confirm that all of the addresses are reachable.

Another story on the internet about PING goes like this...
PING actually is a meaningless shorthand word that originated from submarine movies where the sonar sends out this beep kind of signal, and we see the circle on the screen getting bigger and hear the "ping" when it hits something and produces an echo. In networking, we send a packet of data to a node (computer) which unconditionally causes that node to return the packet from whence it came. So in the beginning, we nerds would describe this process by saying, "PING Xxx to see if it is alive." (In fact, if you PING from a Sun UNIX workstation, you would get the response, "Xxx is alive," if it received the packet.) Packet Internet Gopher as a definition didn't arrive on the scene until almost the 90's after the term "Gopher" and "Internet" came into use, and the windbags needed (wanted) to sound professional. Now you know the real story about PING...

Ping Examples

ping www.webs2go.com

Using ping, you can learn the number form of the IP address from the symbolic domain name.

To find out the dot address (such as 209.24.177.161) for a given domain name, Windows users can go to their MS DOS prompt and enter:

ping www.xxx.yyy

where xxx is the second-level domain name like "webs2go" and yyy is the top-level domain name like "com".

Ping www.webs2go.com

ping 209.24.177.161

You can also use ping to check if a IP address is operating. Windows users can go to their MS DOS prompt and enter:

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx is replaced by the IP address.

Ping www.209.24.177.161

ping

You can also type ping with no address to get the syntax and switches:

ping

Ping Syntax

Server Vars and Web Stats

Listed below are some of the SERVER VARS
that we can collect about your visit to our site.
We can then use this info in calculating web statistics.

Most Commonly Collected Info

1	DATE_LOCAL	Friday, 21-Nov-2008 15:56:27 GMT
2	DOCUMENT_NAME	PingMain.shtml
3	HTTP_REFERER	(none)
4	HTTP_USER_AGENT	CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
5	REMOTE_ADDR	38.103.63.60
6	REMOTE_HOST	Host 60.63.103.38.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Even More...

1	AUTH_TYPE	(none)
2	CONTENT_LENGTH	(none)
3	CONTENT_TYPE	(none)
4	DATE_GMT	Friday, 21-Nov-2008 15:56:27 GMT
5	DATE_LOCAL	Friday, 21-Nov-2008 15:56:27 GMT
6	DOCUMENT_NAME	PingMain.shtml
7	DOCUMENT_ROOT	/usr/home/mesh/www/htdocs
8	DOCUMENT_URI	/PingMain.shtml
9	GATEWAY_INTERFACE	CGI/1.1
10	HTTP_ACCEPT	Accept: application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;
11	HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
12	HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	gzip
13	HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE	en-us,en;q=0.5
14	HTTP_CONNECTION	close
15	HTTP_COOKIE	(none)
16	HTTP_FROM	(none)
17	HTTP_HOST	www.webs2go.com
18	HTTP_REFERER	(none)
19	HTTP_USER_AGENT	CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
20	HTTPS	(none)
21	LAST_MODIFIED	Tuesday, 20-Nov-2001 22:40:11 GMT
22	LOGON_USER	(none)
23	PATH_INFO	(none)
24	PATH_TRANSLATED	(none)
25	QUERY_STRING
26	QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED	(none)
27	REMOTE_ADDR	38.103.63.60
28	REMOTE_HOST	Host 60.63.103.38.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
29	REMOTE_IDENT	(none)
30	REMOTE_USER	(none)
31	SCRIPT_FILENAME	/usr/home/mesh/www/htdocs/PingMain.shtml
32	SCRIPT_NAME	/PingMain.shtml
33	SERVER_ADMIN	webmaster@webs2go.com
34	SERVER_NAME	webs2go.com
35	SERVER_PORT	80
36	SERVER_PORT_SECURE	(none)
37	SERVER_PROTOCOL	HTTP/1.1
38	SERVER_SOFTWARE	Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7m

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