>
> I was thinking to myself last night that I should learn how to ping things
> before I went to bed last night. This morning I arose at 4:45 and jumped onto
> the computer to check the email and through another list I'm on learnedfrom the
> Unix Virus email I forwarded to that list about ping.
> I have two questions concerning ping:
> 1- I leaarned trough the man pages that the 'f' switch means to flood their
> server with ping packets. Does that baasically mean thaT  nothing else can get
> in?
It all depends on your bandwidth and theirs :)
There is also a '-s' parameter that allows you to adjust the packet size.
> 2- Why, in the address portion, does one omit the 'www'?

www is just a subdomain of a domain.  www.site.com and site.com can have
completely different addresses.

JD
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