Good morning, Paul,
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Paul Flint wrote:
Greetings List Lurkers,
This issue seems important to me:
I guess IBM and MIT failed to take your short typing needs into
account when they tightened up their firewalls. *grin*
http://slashdot.org/submission/1084305/The-ping-is-gone?art_pos=71
...on the other hand, the good folks at Slashdot see things differently.
Just set up a server of your own and allow pings to it - the
default. www.rackspacecloud.com provides virtual hosts that are dead
simple to set up with full root access to a good range of Linux
distributions, the least expensive of which is $10.95/mo.
Add
ip.address.of.server pi.ng
to /etc/hosts and you can save 4 keystrokes by typing "ping pi.ng"
:-)
Cheers,
- Bill
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