A ping test is used to determine the connectivity and latency of Internet connected hosts. This online Ping Test uses the nping tool from the Nmap project and is delivered by multiple hosts for for your convience

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Firewalls and routers can be configured to block ICMP request and response so you will sometimes find a system does not respond to ping even though the system is up and running.

Network Firewalls, such as commercial Cisco and Checkpoint products can do this as can local firewalls such as your local Windows Firewall or a local Linux firewall using IP Tables.