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Where in Mac OS X can I do a "ping" command? Terminal?
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- 05-31-2004, 07:11 AM #1dude_funkGuest
How to \"ping\" a Web URL in Mac OS X?
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- 05-31-2004, 07:25 AM #2Mac Fanatic
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Applications > Utilities > Network Utility > Ping
- 05-31-2004, 07:58 AM #3Mac Lover
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you could also use terminal. simply type
ping (website)
ping www.philmug.ph
- 05-31-2004, 06:32 PM #4directXGuest
Ping on the Terminal is the fastest way to access it (along with other utilities such as ifconfig, traceroute, netstat).
Only useful if the server responds to ping requests.
- 06-01-2004, 09:44 AM #5dude_funkGuest
marvinp, danieldy, directX - Thanks a bunch guys! I've been having a few weird problems of not being able to view certain web sites. Example: this morning, I couldn't view geocities.com and philmug.ph although I could view apple.com and nokia.com. Pinging on (gasp)
Windows 98 clearly gets a reply from the mentioned non-viewable sites.
Thanks again to all :beer:
- 06-01-2004, 11:06 AM #6Mac Freak
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Are you by any chance on PLDT's MyDSL? I'm also having problems connecting to various websites, this one included. I'm on PLDT MyDSL Pro.
- 06-01-2004, 06:54 PM #7directXGuest
Eric,
Try pinging the IP addresses of the sites that you cannot access and see how it goes. If you can ping it, then it is a DNS problem.
Cheers!
- 06-01-2004, 07:07 PM #8Mac Freak
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Hi Prof,
Pinged a number of sites and all I got was 'ping: unknown host--' this from sites I usually visit.
- 06-01-2004, 10:21 PM #9directXGuest
Eric,
Unknown host only happens if the name of the host cannot be resolved to its IP address. Post the sites that you are trying to access and I'll see if I can access them and perhaps post their IP addresses as well.
Cheers!
- 06-02-2004, 03:58 AM #10dude_funkGuest Originally posted by directX
Eric,
Try pinging the IP addresses of the sites that you cannot access and see how it goes. If you can ping it, then it is a DNS problem.
Cheers!
That's exactly mentioned in the (html) error message: "DNS error"
Short of simply informing my ISP (again), is there anything I can do on my end?
Oh and I only get this problem during the sunrise hours.
When this problem manifests, I can do a ping on, say "www.yahoo.com" but I could not actually view the html page when I type the same URL on my browser. I was thinking it was a Windows 98 issue on my ol' Pentium 166 :blush:
Thanks
[Edited on 6-1-2004 by dude_funk]
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