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--- mail.yashy.com ping statistics --- | --- mail.yashy.com ping statistics --- | ||
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss | 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss | ||
One of the original [[DoS]] was a simple ping flood. If you have more bandwidth then your victim, you can do | |||
# ping -f example.com. | |||
and slow your victim to a grinding halt. | |||
A similar tool to ping would be [[traceroute]]. | A similar tool to ping would be [[traceroute]]. | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 24 October 2005
ping is a tool written by the late Mike Muus to measure latency and round-trip time between two hosts connected by an Internet, often it is also used to simply debug if the other host is up. It works by sending an ICMP type 8 packet to the remote host which replies with an ICMP type 0 packet. Sometimes there is firewalls preventing a ping from receiving a reply.
This would look like so:
$ ping -c 1 www.yashy.com PING mail.yashy.com (206.248.137.44): 56 data bytes --- mail.yashy.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
One of the original DoS was a simple ping flood. If you have more bandwidth then your victim, you can do
# ping -f example.com.
and slow your victim to a grinding halt.
A similar tool to ping would be traceroute.
