Ping Info View is a small utility that lets you send multiple pings to 
hostnames and IP addresses, and once sent it will show you the results in a 
table. In this table it shows, together with the IP address or hostname, the 
corresponding IP address, the answer address, the packets sent, those that 
failed, the status of the last ping sent, and time taken. You can save the 
results in a text file, in HTML, XML or copy it to the Windows...

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Gene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Testing remote address(es)


>  You may be thinking of the ancient "finger" command, which at some
> point became such a vector for intrusions and enial-of-service attacks
> that most firewalls block it by default, and few sites see any value in
> overriding that.
>
>  So it has become effectively unusable, even if some hosts do still run
> code which includes implementations of it.
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> On 22 Feb 2009 at 23:17, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Long ago, I recall there was a "command" -- like "PING" or something --  
>> with which one could test whether an address hen was about to send to 
>> actually existed.  I think the idea was how to see whether I remembered 
>> an address aright, without actually bugging an addressee or trying it to 
>> see it a message bounced.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me whether such a thing still exists, and how I might use 
>> it.  (Just using the WWWeb has been so easy that I've forgotten all the 
>> "old stuff.")     ---ed
>>
>> Ed Nelson (from Chicago's southmost suburbs)
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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>>
>
>             PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download
>                     visit our download web page at:
>                  http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml 

             PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download
                     visit our download web page at:
                  http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml