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Ping & Traceroute

Reachability and path to a host.

How it works

Online ping: is this host reachable, and how far away is it?

Enter a hostname or IPv4 address. Browsers and web servers cannot send ICMP echo requests, so instead of a classic ping we do what actually matters for a website or mail server: resolve the name (A and AAAA), open TCP connections to ports 80 and 443 three times each and report the round-trip time, then identify the network and country the IP belongs to so you know where the packets ended up. Quick way to tell a dead host from a slow one, or a DNS problem from a server problem.

Results appear here after you click Ping host.

How this works

1
Resolve A and AAAA
The hostname is resolved over DNS-over-HTTPS so a DNS failure is separated from a server failure.
2
TCP ping 80 and 443
Our server completes a TCP handshake to each port three times and records min, average and max round-trip time plus failures.
3
Locate the endpoint
The answering IP is checked against registry data for its owning network, ASN, country and reverse DNS.

Frequently asked questions

Can a website really ping a server?: Not with ICMP: browsers have no raw socket access and most hosting platforms forbid it. What this tool does instead is a TCP ping, timing a real connection to ports 80 and 443. For a web or mail server that is the more useful number anyway, because it measures the service you actually depend on.
What is a good ping time?: Under 50 ms is same-region, 100–200 ms is typical across an ocean, and over 300 ms feels sluggish for interactive apps. Remember the time shown is from our probe server to the target; your own latency depends on where you are. A CDN brings content close to every visitor regardless.
Ping fails but the website loads. How?: Many servers block ICMP entirely while serving HTTP normally, so a classic ping times out. Our TCP method avoids that false alarm. The reverse also happens: a host can answer ping while the web service is crashed, which is why we test the ports rather than the host.
How do I run a real traceroute?: On macOS or Linux open a terminal and run traceroute example.com; on Windows run tracert example.com in Command Prompt. Each line is a router on the path with its response time. Asterisks mean a hop did not reply, which is common and not necessarily a problem.
What does the network owner tell me?: It identifies who operates the IP space the host lives in, such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Hetzner or a local ISP. If it is a CDN, you are seeing the edge node nearest our probe, not the origin server. Combined with the country it explains most unexpected latency.

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