How do I run Ping and Traceroute on Macintosh OS X?

1.     Click Finder or press Command+N

2.     Double click Applications, click Utilities, double click Terminal

 

 

 

3.     In the command mode, enter the command with the hostname :

 

 

ping   www.yourdomain.com      (example: ping   www.wcpdemo.com)

and then enter

tracert   www.yourdomain.com   (example:  tracert   www.wcpdemo.com)



 



If it’s your email connection problem, then enter

ping   mail.yourdomain.com      (example:  ping  mail.wcpdemo.com) 

tracert   mail.yourdomain.com   (example:  tracert mail.wcpdemo.com)

      

If it’s your website connection problem, then enter 

ping    www.yourdomain.com       (example:  ping   www.wcpdemo.com)

tracert    www.yourdomain.com    (example:  tracert   www.wcpdemo.com)

 

If it’s your FTP connection problem, then enter

ping   ftp.yourdomain.com         (example:  ping   ftp.wcpdemo.com)

tracert     ftp.yourdomain.com      (example:  tracert   ftp.wcpdemo.com)

 

 

 

4.     To cancel the ping, press CTRL + CThe network results will look similar to :

Ping result:

 

 

    Traceroute result:

 

5.     To capture the screenshot, press Command + Shift + 3.

6.     After you have dumped the results, please send them to [email protected] for investigation.


    

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