Ping Command

Steps to use the Ping command

1. Open the menu "Inicio".

2. Select the "Ejecutar" menu.

    Note

   In Windows7, simply type "cmd" in the "Buscar programas y archivos" section of the menu

   Warning

   Another way to quickly open the "Ejecutar" menu is to use the keyboard shortcut Windows + R

3. Type "cmd" and click "Aceptar"

4. In the system console, type:

   ping 127.0.0.1

5. Remember to replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address or domain name you want to ping. If there is a connection between your computer and the destination computer, you will receive output like the following:

If, on the other hand, there is no connection between your computer and the destination computer, you will receive output like the following:

Another very useful function of the Ping command is to find out which IP address a given domain name resolves to or, conversely, which hostname an IP address resolves to.To check the IP address a domain name resolves to, simply run the PING command specifying the domain name.

Example:

 ping google.es

And the output will be:

To find out the hostname an IP address resolves to, you can run the ping command with the -a option.

Example:

ping -a 93.189.92.100

And this will be the output: