hi all,my quest for assistance to know about how to know a systems location with DOS ping command brought me here and am sure i will get the answer here.i want to know if there is a way i can know a computers location through pinging the ip address and to know the meaning of all ping reply parameters: TTL=31?.Please kindly notify me through my mail if you can help or have answered my questions. Thanks, peter

TTL=x = Time To live=x (x) being time in milliseconds. I'm not sure if you could directly find a node via DOS directly but you could use trace route to find which switches and routers the signal goes through to get to it. Thus it would mean physically following cables and stuff to get to it. Usually if this were a major network it would be all diagrammed put and you'd have a name to go by so you could follow the layout on the diagram and see which room it is in.

Thanks Lupin3rd,but thats just a bit of what i want.i want to be able to trace online friends true location with their ip addresses and first of all how to get their ip with which they send me messages.in some cases i usually have the ip when they send me attached files.

Firstly the PING Command is not DOS par-se. You are actually using XP which has NT Command Prompt (CMD.exe. Secondly this forum is for MS-DOS and Compatable O/Ses and XP is not in that category as it has no MS-DOS SubSystem. Thirdly CN has a Network Forum which cross-O/S networking questions similar to yours have been asked before, yes each forum has a SEARCH function. Therefore to give you a hint try these and the links in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer... Goobye and hopefully in future one will allow us Dossers to have our forum back !!!!!