How to Ping Everyone
After the wonderfully successful tutorial on how to backup the internet, we decided to write an equally important tutorial on how to ping everyone on the internets.
Sure, you are surfing online without any problems now, but, just how do you know that you will be able to connect to every site on the internets? How can you be so sure in your ISP? One of the other great uses of the Windows command prompt is pinging everyone. That is, you can ping every site online to make sure you will be able to connect to it in the future, just in case.
You will need to open up your command prompt window, you can find this by typing cmd in the run menu. Now, once in command prompt, follow these simple and easy steps to ping everything.
ping everyone
That's it! Just sit back and wait for your computer to ping every single site on the internets to be sure that it is accessible. It could take quite a while to do this considering the vast number of computers on the internets. Command prompt will give you a detailed report of the sites that weren't available. This list can come in quite handy if you cross reference any site you are about to visit with this report. Sweet.
One of the other great things about this ping everyone command is that you can not only ping computers, but, toasters, refrigerators, microwaves, radios, basketballs and in some cases even animals such as emus and badgers. For an example of pinging every refridgerator (to make sure they are fully functional), try this command.
ping everyone -refrigerators all
The report generated from this command will provide you with a detailed list of refrigerators that are connected to the internet and not running. It will also give you contact information on the owners which will allow you to let them know if indeed there refrigerator is running or not, sans any comments about having to catch it. Good luck.
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Hi, I am trying to ping everyone so I can compile the list of websites that I won’t be able to visit in the future, but I keep getting the error “Unknown host everyone.”
Comment by Roger — 2/17/05 @ 2:29 am
Hi Roger. Normally that error is caused by a hardware problem, such as not having enough RAM. I would recommend at least 1G of RAM if you are going to try to run the ping everyone command. If it still doesn’t work, try adding 1 more G of RAM.
Comment by Recipher — 2/17/05 @ 12:02 pm
A lesser known but highly useful ping command is the ping everyone -naked
Comment by Trevor — 2/22/05 @ 5:00 pm
try ping -Jenna Jameson - naked
Cause face it, you know this is why we are all on the internet. Why waste the time just go straight to the search!
Comment by ICDEADPEOPLE — 3/22/05 @ 12:02 pm
That will teach me to google key words.”ping everyone”
You got me- too funny
Comment by Steve Sharrow — 6/17/05 @ 7:21 pm
This doesn’t work for me! This website sucks!
Comment by John — 8/31/05 @ 6:43 pm
It said ‘ping timeout -bluedamage.com
What does that mean?
Comment by Fat Kid At McDonalds — 9/1/05 @ 12:06 am
i am trying to ping all the computers in the network and i have tried ‘ping everyone’ at least 12 times. i can seem to get any responce apart from- cant find host.
i need to ping it so badly!!!!
ping ping ping
Comment by i love this site — 11/29/05 @ 5:36 am
umm websense block it at my school . thanx
Comment by brandon — 3/15/06 @ 2:29 pm
this sucks…nothing works.i wanna learn how to flood servers !!!fuck u all
Comment by usama — 5/22/06 @ 7:23 pm
worked for me…but worked too well. i was spooling my results to a text file using the command
ping everyone >>results.txt command
but the file got too big and i ran out of disk space. i’m starting again with a bigger disk.
also i found 1gb memory wasnt necessary if you pipe the results to your favorite zip program first eg
pkzip ping everyone >>results.txt
cool eh?
Comment by josh — 12/6/07 @ 7:48 pm