From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 31 11:27:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:27:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ophelia.uoregon.edu (sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu [128.223.194.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27177 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:27:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by ophelia.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08846; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:27:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:27:20 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: "J.R.S. II" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupid ping question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, J.R.S. II wrote: > If I'm trying to ping a port on a specific ip # what would i do. > > I thought it would be something like > > > $ping 255.255.255.255:80 You can't ping a port on a machine. Just ping the IP address without trying to designate a port. Sean -- "Believe me, the truth is we're not honest. Not the people that we dream." --10,000 Maniacs, "Eden" Sean Harding, sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message