Article: Ping is still useful for something; * Querying IP addresses with ping.

Article: Nutter's Help Desk: Private vs. public IP numbers.(whether to use ...
Network World;  March 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... especially since using a public IP address on both sides of a router ... RFC 1918 specifies three IP address ranges -- one from each ... discard packets used in ping and other hacker attacks ... packets are destined from an IP address in one of the three ranges ...

Article: Another challenger to the IP address management ...
Network World;  July 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... find the world's best IP address management tool, IPControl ... mountable device. IP address requests Product Elapsedseconds ... VitalQIP can optionally ping a DHCP address-requesting ... operations as relating an IP address to a MAC address (user ...

Article: 3Com improves NIC security features; Company's card adds ...
Network World;  April 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... users from sniffing packets or spoofing an IP address. The NICs can also prevent end users from ... as an extranet business partner, based on IP address. Server NICs can be told not to send pings or fragmented packets, which can help stem ...

Article: Another ping pack and my favorite new portable ...
Network World;  July 5, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... products/WS_Ping/index.html ... tool nor just a ping utility, which ... official hostname and IP address. The tool also ... information and pings the host to check ... which determine the IP address and ping time for all intermediate ...

Article: Mailbag: Ban ping? Why not shut down the entire network? * ...
Network World;  November 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... The ban on outbound pings was imposed to protect ... at it? Why stop with ping? "I couldn't agree ... shutting down outbound pings to include turning off ... management directing that ping be blocked for security ... discovery of one's IP address. [These people in management ...

Article: Ping and Tracert: We lose, the hackers win; * Ping ...
Network World;  October 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Taylor, Jim Metzler "Ping," a command that was ... round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much ... something? Then we "ping" them. The "ping problem ... simply not responding to "pings." This is effective, but it also renders ping useless as a diagnostic ...

Article: Mailbag: Readers find usefulness in ping and tracert; * ...
Network World;  October 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... process, as it prevents IP address to name resolution attempts ... You may find that a ping to a given address ... host does not respond to ping, but that a tracert ... above, simply type "ping /?" and "tracert ... would *ever* forget the IP address that you reassigned to ...