How to ping a machine in a simple way?

Wed May 14 02:05:14 EDT 2003

Hello, David!
You wrote  on Tue, 13 May 2003 21:41:46 GMT:

 DB> That may not be a good test, if the machine is firewalled, you'd not
 DB> see a responce on 139 either.
NetBIOS port 139 is guaranteed to be open in my domain, yet this doesn't
work. 'telnet c1r383n09 139' succeeds (if the machine is up).

So, can anyone help me?

With best regards, Lexy Zhitenev.  E-mail: zhitenev at cs.vsu.ru