How to ping

graphiteG4 · Mar 13, 2008

i am sort of a newbie when it comes to this. can someone tell me the terminal Command to ping a web site.

thanks

flopticalcube · Mar 13, 2008

ping <address>

graphiteG4 · Mar 13, 2008

wow that makes me feel dumb guess i should of used some common sence thanks

ChrisA · Mar 13, 2008

graphiteG4 said:
i am sort of a newbie when it comes to this. can someone tell me the terminal Command to ping a web site.

thanks

While in the terminal type "man ping" (no quotes) and the man program will print out the manual page for the ping command.

benwiggy · Mar 25, 2013

You can also use ping, and other network testing functions, in the Network Utility app, in the Utilities folder.