Packet INternet Gropher (mostly known as ping) uses the ICMP protocol’s mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (‘pings’) have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a struct timeval and then an arbitrary number of “pad” bytes used to fill out the packet.<\/p>\n
We use ping mostly to check the connectivity between servers\/client machines, network devices (routers & switches). When performing a ping to any device, different responses are received. Let’s understand them in detail.<\/p>\n
Destination host unreachable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The above response means the issue is with your machine’s network. Either a network card is not attached\/installed OR network cable is not connected properly. Start to check from your network adapter.<\/p>\n
Reply from 192.168.1.1: Destination net unreachable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you are connected to a modem OR in a network, the above response means the network device is unreachable. The network device can either be a modem, switch OR your router.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Request timed out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The above message states that the remote machine\/server is not responding. It can be down, not in the network, etc. It can also be due to ICMP requests disabled OR your IP blocked\/blacklisted in the server firewall. Contact your system administrator OR web hosting provider<\/a> to delist\/unblock it.<\/p>\n
Reply from xx.xx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=574ms TTL=50<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The above response means that the remote machine\/server is accessible over the network. The time you receive this response, machine\/server & services can be accessible.<\/p>\n
Understanding the ping response will help you to troubleshoot the issues in a better way & in right direction.<\/p>\n
Read:<\/strong> How To Perform Ping Checks In Windows?<\/a>
\nRead:<\/strong> Ping, how to tell if a server is online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packet INternet Gropher (mostly known as ping) uses the ICMP protocol’s mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (‘pings’) have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a struct timeval and then an arbitrary number of “pad” bytes used to fill out the packet. We use ping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","placeholder-for-hentry","category-web-hosting-faq"],"yoast_head":"\n
Understanding ping response<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking for a comprehensive understanding of ping responses and their significance in network troubleshooting. Know about the ping command and how it measures the connectivity and latency between your computer and a remote server.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Understanding ping response\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Looking for a comprehensive understanding of ping responses and their significance in network troubleshooting. Know about the ping command and how it measures the connectivity and latency between your computer and a remote server.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-11T14:48:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-11T11:12:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/\",\"name\":\"Understanding ping response\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-01-11T14:48:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-11T11:12:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/90143c7d8df4b4de36b3dbb0bb272f69\"},\"description\":\"Looking for a comprehensive understanding of ping responses and their significance in network troubleshooting. Know about the ping command and how it measures the connectivity and latency between your computer and a remote server.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Understanding ping response\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/\",\"name\":\"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/90143c7d8df4b4de36b3dbb0bb272f69\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42e5b55cc2772cd685c8803f6f7f854b?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42e5b55cc2772cd685c8803f6f7f854b?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"description\":\"With over 10+ years of experience in the web hosting industry, I have achieved extensive exposure to result-oriented methodologies. And expertise in different domains like Datacentre Services, Cloud computing technology, Web hosting industry and many more.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Understanding ping response","description":"Looking for a comprehensive understanding of ping responses and their significance in network troubleshooting. Know about the ping command and how it measures the connectivity and latency between your computer and a remote server.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Understanding ping response","og_description":"Looking for a comprehensive understanding of ping responses and their significance in network troubleshooting. Know about the ping command and how it measures the connectivity and latency between your computer and a remote server.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/","og_site_name":"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb","article_published_time":"2013-01-11T14:48:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-11T11:12:03+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/","name":"Understanding ping response","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-01-11T14:48:21+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-11T11:12:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/90143c7d8df4b4de36b3dbb0bb272f69"},"description":"Looking for a comprehensive understanding of ping responses and their significance in network troubleshooting. Know about the ping command and how it measures the connectivity and latency between your computer and a remote server.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/understanding-ping-response\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Understanding ping response"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/","name":"Web Hosting FAQs by MilesWeb","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/90143c7d8df4b4de36b3dbb0bb272f69","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42e5b55cc2772cd685c8803f6f7f854b?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42e5b55cc2772cd685c8803f6f7f854b?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"admin"},"description":"With over 10+ years of experience in the web hosting industry, I have achieved extensive exposure to result-oriented methodologies. And expertise in different domains like Datacentre Services, Cloud computing technology, Web hosting industry and many more.","url":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"views":1295,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14958,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/14958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}