2 definitions by end_user

BSD

Berkeley Standard Distribution.
This is Berkeley Universities Implementation of UNIX. Although BSD is not a registered UNIX BSD includes source code from the original System V in its kernel.

see FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD.

Haha, I laughed as the linux kiddie ran his outdated bind exploits on my OpenBSD
server.

by end_user November 11, 2003

ping

Tool for testing network connectivity.
Uses ICMP )(internet message control protocol). Sends an icmp packet to target remote host(s). Commonly you can specify options such as the payload , ttl , sequence number, and offset.

The unix admin used ``ping`` to test out
the new router.

by end_user November 11, 2003