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[bogus@does.not.exist.com ()]

--- 66.250.33.252 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% loss, time 3006ms

[david at uni musicat]$ head /tmp/pingerr
[david at uni musicat]$

> $ /bin/ping -n -i 10 64.28.81.46 2>&1 | more

If you're putting this in a script you don't want to hang forever, use the -c 
option (number of ping requests to send) and the -w option (maximum wait 
time).

> That's all the output I got in over a minute.   The  stderr  messages
> didn't appear.  So I tried:

OK, how about forgetting the output and checking $?, which will be set to 0 if 
the host was reachable, or 1 if it was not.

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