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 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Shortest, fastest?

    ping 1.1

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ycuser2 4 days ago | parent [-]

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?

	▲	jen729w 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		You mis-read me. I said 'shortest'.

▲ oreilles 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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firefax 4 days ago | parent [-]

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?

	▲	theshackleford 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It would depend on where you are pinging from and if they have anything closer to you to respond. From where I am, google averages 4ms, yahoo is at 200ms+. Obviously because they dont have the money or marketshare to bother putting anything for me to route closer too.
	▲	jedberg 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Same experiment from my gigabit link in Silicon Valley. Looks like Yahoo is about 3 times slower but far more consistent --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 6.918/23.419/294.037/62.272 ms --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 78.056/78.940/80.940/0.811 ms Although what's interesting is that Yahoo is really more like 10 times slower (almost every ping was in the 6-8ms range), it's just that there was just that one packet at 300ms and other at 30ms that really blew out the average.

▲ qingcharles 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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