[oclug] ping timeouts

[Brad Barnett]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:15:45 -0700
tcruicksh at softhome.net wrote:

> Hello,
>    I would be curious to know if there was a way to specify how long a 
> time-out would be for a ping. 
> 
> For example. let's say that I wish to ping www.google.ca 
> 
> If I have no internet connection, ping will try pinging www.google.ca
> for about 40 seconds before it quits and gives me a message saying
> unknown host. 
> 
> Is there a way to specify 5 seconds or so instead of the default of
> about 40. 
> 
> Please let me know. If you know of a more appropriate list, feel free to
> 
> direct me towards it. 
> 
> Tom 


Your delay here would be because of a DNS timeout.  If you want to get
around this particular issue, use ping with -n and an IP for google.

That is, use:

ping -n 216.239.37.99