Linux ping

• 30 August 2021
• bash,
• linux,
• ping

In case you have some 'alpine' version of Linux you might not have ping tool installed. One of the alternative ways to check access to a server is:

timeout 2 bash -c "</dev/tcp/172.18.0.10/80"; echo $?

IP should be modified and can also accept URL. Port should be always specified.

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