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Re:DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering by snazz on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:44AM (#19094652)
The advantage of pinging IPs is that you don’t have to have a working DNS setup to test your connection. If DNS does work, then your connection probably works, too.
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Re:DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering by 1_player on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:27AM (#19094869)
In this case one should run "ping -n", otherwise ping will hang trying to resolve the IP into an hostname, if the DNS is misbehaving or not responding.
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Re:DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering by sathackr on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:05AM (#19096237)
what default(included in OS) ping utility tries to reverse-lookup an address before pinging, and hangs if it can't.

I've never observed this in any version of Windows nor Linux.

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