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ping command not working in Cygwin

I am trying to use the terminal on a Windows machine and so I have installed Cygwin.

When I try to test if Cygwin works using ping, it gives me an error.

$ ping google.com
-bash: ping: command not found

I expected a result like the one below:

$ ping google.com
Pinging google.com [74.125.227.105] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.227.105: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=51

Could someone help me with this? Is there something wrong with the installation of cygwin.

Solution

  • You need to run the cygwin setup setup.exe and check the inetutils. If you have a 64-bit version of Cygwin please check this:

    https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00336.html