On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:19, Michael Havens wrote:
> I was thinking to myself last night that I should learn how to ping things before I went to bed last night. This morning I arose at 4:45 and jumped onto the computer to check the email and through another list I'm on learnedfrom the Unix Virus email I forwarded to that list about ping. 
> I have two questions concerning ping:
> 1- I leaarned trough the man pages that the 'f' switch means to flood their server with ping packets. Does that baasically mean thaT  nothing else can get in?
> 2- Why, in the address portion, does one omit the 'www'?
> :-)Mike(-:
> 

Pick up a book on networking 101, or if you're more daring, pick up a
cert book for the Networking+ (equivalent to the A+ for basics) exam.