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ashishb4u

..and to ping internet :)

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I replaced that long ago with 'ping 8.8.8.8'. Still google but not quite the homepage.

You won't know if your DNS is down in that case :)

well, the DNS would be 8.8.8.8 anyway :)

But pinging it doesn't tell you if DNS service is up/down.

You should be running your own in-house anyways.

Google has some kinda fancy browser caching, such that it's not a great way to test if your internet connection is working. Even with a shift-refresh.

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