If you use a domain, ping will use DNS to resolve the domain name to that domain's default server (or to a gateway or CDN that points to the default server). There is also an IPv6-enabled version ...

You'll also need to know the address of the other server that you want to send a ping message. This can be a human-readable domain name, like www.example.com, or an Internet protocol address ...

I'm confused. I've got an XP laptop that suddenly can't reach one of my home network servers by name. (By IP works fine)<BR><BR>If I ping Servername.myhomenet.com, I get "could not find host ...

For example, if XYZ.com is the website name, here is how this situation will look like on command prompt. nslookup xyz.com Server: dns.company.com Address: 192.168.1.38 C:\> ping xyz.com Ping ...

No reboot is needed to test the changes. Simply ping the domain name you added to the Ubuntu hosts file and the repeated responses from the server will be visible. The corollary to this danger is the ...

Reader Rob P. uses Firefox quick search bookmark to see if web servers aren't reachable. He says: Add this as a Bookmark in Firefox: http://network-tools.com/default ...

To find out whether the NTP server is online, ping the server with the command line tool. Click the "Start" button on your desktop and type "Command" in the search box. Click on "Command Prompt ...