The ability to ping servers is a handy diagnostic tool when you are experiencing problems with your network or accessing the Internet. By pinging different servers, you can pinpoint whether your ...

I'm trying to figure out why I can't ping several machines by name. The nameservers in the following example, are running Windows 2008 R2. The nfs servers are running Ubuntu Karmic. NFS1 and NFS2 are ...

Google has announced it’s opened a ping server for bloggers to ping them directly when you create a new blog entry using the XML-RPC protocol. In order to ping Google directly you simply need to add ...

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 ...

About a week ago the plaza where my office is dark for about 5 minutes. When I brought everything back up several of the computers came back but the server was not listed in the network list. I was ...

WebmasterWorld's moderator, incrediBill, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld noting that Yahoo's URL Ping server seems to have gone offline recently. As he explains, when he tries to access the ...