Have a Bash with the Zing network utility Zinger

We show you how to implement the zero-packet Ping utility, Zing, as a Bash shell script.

William F. Gilreath

Zing is a zero-packet network utility similar to Ping that I first introduced in December 2022 [1]. Zing has the distinct advantage that hosts without Ping capability can be zinged without sending network packets. Thus, zinging a remote host with multiple zing requests is not a “Ping flood” [2] attack, making Zing a network-safe utility that does not add network traffic. Zing is implemented in a variety of programming languages, is open source, and is available for download [3]. Yet the idea occurred to me to implement zing as a Bash shell script, which has the advantage of avoiding recompilation and of customization or tailoring for specific idiosyncrasies of a system platform or application. Netcat The netcat utility (nc) is a key command-line application and “Swiss army knife” of network…

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