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How can I get ping timeout below 1 second?

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Mar 15, 202641610 views

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I have a web application that runs through thousands of IP addresses and checks if they're online. Basically, if a server uses more than 250ms to respond, it's considered offline in our case. It would be an enormous timesaver if we could get the ping command to give up after about 300 ms, instead o…

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Found a similar question out there, and the answer was a ping alternative called fping. Maybe it'll be of some use to you. https://serverfault.com/questions/200468/how-can-i-set-a-short-timeout-with-the-ping-command

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