Ping is windows or ms-dos

1. Ping is command of windows or MS-DOS?

2. Which OS belongs to tracer out  command?

Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network; it is also used to self-test the network interface card of the computer, or as a speed test. Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer.

Steps to Pinging vu site
1-your computer should be connected to Internet
2-GO to Dos Prompt
3-On Dos Prompt write ping www.vu.edu.pk
4-you will see the Pinging statistics

Trace route is often used for network troubleshooting. By showing a list of routers traversed, it allows the user to identify the path taken to reach a particular destination on the network. By experiment of this command you will see that tracing a route is more interesting tool than Ping as it tells about each computer that falls in the way of source and destination computers.

Steps to tracing yahoo site
1-your computer should be connected to Internet
2-GO to Dos Prompt
3-On Dos Prompt write tracert www.vu.edu.pk
4-you will see the trace route statistics