When my cousin learned about Ping at school in the 2000s he setup
ping gateway -ton all the computers in his highschool class.Took down the school network for the day. He didn’t get in trouble I think. Just a laugh from the school admin (they knew each other and he volunteered there). Admin blocked ping after that.
I was in HS from 2001 to 2005, and it was the wild west. They had computer money galore, but the guys tasked with being in charge of them knew as much as we did, and they just could not compete with the teenage ingenuity. I remember using telnet to just shoot the shit with people all day, and eventually play MUDs in class. And trying to destroy the computer or the network from the inside was just a daily occurrence.
I love it when the TILs read like “I discovered my toes and they’re called toes”.
That person was Mike Muuss, who tragically died in a car crash in 2000, only 42 years old.
Vasili. One ping only.
First thing you do to debug connectivity to a remote host problem is the ol’ ping.
Ping?
Pong
!
In a cli type “ping 8.8.8.8”
Pong
At work we say “i pung it”
Because pinged doesn’t sound right. And pung is more fun.
Another one we haven’t named yet is when an address goes through translation. Is it NATted? “Its been NATted”
Doesn’t feel right.
Oh so ‘NUT’ is not work appropriate language? Take it up with the author of NAT and with linguists
If i was from london then saying Nutted would sound like i was saying natted so that brings a whole new layer to this.
you’ll need to do better than this. maybe you’ll stumble on the right term in a moment of post-NAT clarity.
I thought it was called that because of pingpong where you shoot a ball and the other person shoots it back.
Fun fact, most military ships and submarines use fmcw sonar, that doesn’t really ping in the same way.
Fuck My Concurrent Walrus?
Doesn’t AngryIP Scanner send out zillions of em? Why is networking still so primitive?
