[nertzy]

I am still a Yahoo! pinger as well.

  ~  ping yahoo.com
  PING yahoo.com (74.6.231.20): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 74.6.231.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=42.366 ms
  ^C
  --- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 42.366/42.366/42.366/0.000 ms

[jen729w]

Shortest, fastest?

    ping 1.1

[ycuser2]

What do you mean by "safest"? How is pinging 1.0.0.1 safer that yahoo.com? With pinging 1.1 you exclude DNS from your chain, but is that safer anyhow?

[oreilles]

I just tried, pinging Yahoo is about 20 times slower than pinging Google...

[firefax]

I decided to run a small experiment

ping -c 20 -i 5 google.com; ping -c 20 -i 5 yahoo.com [snip] --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.746/19.939/25.057/3.153 ms [snip] --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.561/20.883/25.080/2.675 ms

They look comparable to me?

[qingcharles]

It's a muscle memory now after 30 years of doing it. Always the first thing I ping when testing a connection.