The most important networking command in Linux might be ping. This command lets you check if a remote machine is responding ...

Ping a website or another online server to test your computer's connection to that computer and measure the time it takes for data packets to travel there and back. By default, the ping command sends ...

host 10.0.0.1<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>dig 10.0.0.1<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>nslookup 10.0.0.1 (I think this is deprecated)<BR><BR>or <BR><BR>mtr 10.0.0.1 (this will ping, traceroute, and lookup the name so should ...

In previous articles we’ve built some useful servers. But this time let’s take a look at one of the most powerful network troubleshooting tools ever written: the mighty “ping” command. You may have ...

The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

Do you think of the command line as an antiquated leftover from the past, or an old fashioned way of interacting with a computer? Think again. In Linux, the command line remains the most flexible and ...