Sorry Wito, but I think you're pinging at the wrong address here :-) This group's business is about getting the speedtouch working and not about the intimate knowledge of ping. BTW most people use ping as a tool (or doorbell, if you wish) to see if someone is home so to speak. I always accepted it 'as is' and never was interested in the 'how', though having heard of echo-requests etc. It seems a waste of time for you to dive into these realms, while your connection problem should be easily solved on a higher level. From then on, before you know it, you will be pinging the whole world (wow!).
Ok wito wrote: >the first function call in the ping's source is a call to >"gethostbyname()" - and returns null. In the manual pages of gethostbyname() >is a cross reference to "named(8)". I guess that means "name daemon"???? I >cannot find on my system neither a manual entry for "named" nor such a file >nor process ("ps -ef|grep name"). >My question: do I need this process?? And in the case I need it - where can >I get it from ? > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]