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To: Gottfried who wrote (29771)10/24/2002 11:48:40 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110655
 
It's the ping command.
At a dos prompt just type a URL w/o http://

Example:

c:\>ping www.yahoo.com

Pinging www.yahoo.akadns.net [64.58.76.227] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.58.76.227: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.58.76.227: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.58.76.227: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.58.76.227: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 64.58.76.227:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 15ms