PING Full Form Name
Full Form of PING :
Pocket Internet Groper
PING Full Form is Pocket
Internet Groper. PING is a computer program or software which
is used for getting connectivity of network between 2 systems. These systems
can vary from a huge server to a router to a personal computer or a gateway. In
order to test the connectivity, series of packets are passed through a network
from one system to the second one. The system on the other side acknowledges it
by replied. This acknowledgement helps the sender system to understand that
connection has been established between the systems.
PING is basically a software
utility that is utilized for the purposes of testing the reachability of a host
over an Internet Protocol (abbreviated as IP) network. This utility evaluates
the round-trip time of those messages that are sent from the source host to a
target computer which is sent back to the source. The name PING is derived from
an active solar terminology which transmits a pulse of sound and receives an
echo for the detection of objects under water. PING is actually a backronym.
The operation of PING is done by transmitting Internet Control Message Protocol
(abbreviated as ICMP) Echo request packets. These packets are sent to the
destination host and the PING then waits for an ICMP Echo reply.
This program reports packet loss,
errors, a statistical summary of all the results, generally covering maximum,
minimum, and standard deviation of the mean. There are variations in the
command-line options and the output of the PING utility among various
implementations. Options often include the count of tests, size of the payload,
limits for the TTL, etc. Many systems have come up with a provision of a
companion utility called ping6, for the purposes of testing on IPV6 networks.
PING can also refer to the push
mechanism used in blogging. Here, PING is the mechanism based on XML-RPC. This
helps the weblog to notify the server regarding the contents being updated. A
ping server might notify various services when pinged. The list of services
includes; web directories, aggregators, feed websites, search engines, and
others.