I was thinking to myself last night that I should learn how to ping thing= s before I went to bed last night. This morning I arose at 4:45 and jumpe= d onto the computer to check the email and through another list I'm on le= arnedfrom the Unix Virus email I forwarded to that list about ping.=20 I have two questions concerning ping: 1- I leaarned trough the man pages that the 'f' switch means to flood the= ir server with ping packets. Does that baasically mean thaT nothing else= can get in? 2- Why, in the address portion, does one omit the 'www'? :-)Mike(-: This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spa= m or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blo= cked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE = with every account.=20 http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net