The ability to ping servers is a handy diagnostic tool when you are experiencing problems with your network or accessing the Internet. By pinging different servers, you can pinpoint whether your ...

The useful program ping can be used to quickly test connections on your computer network. sends a signal from your computer to a specified network address. If the computer at that address responds, ...

If you’re like most people, you’ve never taken a look at Network Utility (/Applications/Utilities), one of the free applications that comes with Mac OS X. But for ...

This is senior editor Dan Moren. We take networking for granted these days, but it’s still a complicated beast. If you want to go under the hood, Apple includes a suite of tools on your Mac to help ...

I'd like a small, unobtrusive utility to "ping" a set of local and remote servers to tell if they've crashed. I need utility this to run under Mac OS X, but the servers are running Mac OS X, Linux, ...