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Distribution: OpenSuse 10.2, Slackware 11, Solaris 10
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ping doesnt work
Hi all,
I was working on a utility which plays a sound when the internet connection is disconnected, well I though I would ping a site, until I get an error, then provoke the sound function. But then I found out that ping doesnt work at all although all other services work.
Because http is not part of an address, it's a protocol
that you instruct the browser to use for contacting an
actual ip address ... similariliy, if you tried
ping www.google.com/linux it wouldn't work either,
because /linux is just a reference to a location on
the server with the IP address www.google.com
The example is a bit far fetched, but think of the address
(www.xxx.com) as a TV set, http and https are different
access-methods and the bits after the first / are the channels.
Distribution: OpenSuse 10.2, Slackware 11, Solaris 10
Posts: 415
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The example is a bit far fetched, but think of the address
(www.xxx.com) as a TV set, http and https are different
access-methods and the bits after the first / are the channels.
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