Bret Hughes <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes you are. You (not you specifically, but people in general) don't > > ping webpages, you ping DNS records. > > Well, not exactly ping is a program that sends an ICMP message (echo > request) to a machine. as with most (all?) tcp/ip networking programs > if the host given as an argument is not recognized as an ip address, a > call to a name resolution routines like gethostbyname() is made to > map a host name to an ip address. Don't confuse the guy. If he doesn't know how to use ping correctly I don't think he's going to understand what you just said. The bottom line is that you can't/don't ping URLs, you ping host records/DNS entries, and IP addresses. Is this incorrect? chris. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
