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Why can't I write ping in Java?
Ping requires ICMP packets. These packets can only be created via a socket of the SOCK_RAW type. Currently, Java only allows SOCK_STREAM (TCP) and SOCK_DGRAM (UDP) sockets. It seems unlikely that this will be added very soon, since many Unix versions only allow SOCK_RAW sockets to be created by root, and winsock does not address ICMP packets (win32 includes an unsupported and undocumented ICMP.DLL).
For a full discussion of socket types, see Stevens' book (in the bibliography).
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