We always want to ping a host on local network or on the internet to check the availability. In this article, let’s check how to do ping on Ubuntu using the terminal.
The ping command can be used for this purpose. You can use the command as given below.
ping google.comHere, Google is the host.
I hope you understood how to use the ping command on Ubuntu.
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