{"id":538,"date":"2020-06-04T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=538"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:53:23","slug":"how-to-use-ping-on-a-macos","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-use-ping-on-a-macos","title":{"rendered":"How to use Ping on a macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>How to use Ping on a macOS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MPH_PVContent\">macOS also comes with a terminal service window, much like Unix or Microsoft Windows Command Prompt.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how to use the ping utility in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/Mac-OS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">macOS<\/a>\u00a0from the command line:<\/p>\n<p>1) Press Command button and Space Button to lauch Spotlight<\/p>\n<p>2) Key in \u201cT<b>erminal<\/b>\u201d and open it<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0<span id=\"ctl00_MPH_PVContent\">After you have opened the\u00a0<b>Terminal\u00a0<\/b>you may just perform a ping for the domain that you wish for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MPH_PVContent\">4) Press Control and Z button to stop the ping<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to use Ping on a macOS macOS also comes with a terminal service window, much like Unix or Microsoft Windows Command Prompt. Here\u2019s how to use the ping utility in\u00a0macOS\u00a0from the command line: 1) Press Command button and Space Button to lauch Spotlight 2) Key in \u201cTerminal\u201d and open it 3)\u00a0After you have opened the\u00a0Terminal\u00a0you may just perform a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[20],"kbtag":[1110,1640],"class_list":["post-538","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-network","kbtag-macos","kbtag-ping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/538\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}