An unsuccessful ping will look like this:
PING cathinfo.com (68.235.165.156) 56(84) bytes of data.
Actually, there's nothing about what you excerpted that
demonstrates that the ping was
unsuccessful in fact; that your excerpt shows the old IPA merely provides the reasonable
expectation of failure, and would've typically been successful until late yesterday.
A
ping that's
unsuccessful in fact looks like this [†], which is what I've seen this morning:
C:\>ping
www.cathinfo.com Pinging cathinfo.com [
216.45.85.184] with 32 bytes of data:
Request
timed out. Request
timed out. Request
timed out. Request
timed out. Ping statistics for 216.45.85.184:
Packets: Sent = 4,
Received = 0, Lost = 4 (
100% loss),
C:\>
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Note †: The presentation seen by other readers on their own computers will vary. What I show above is
per the
command window of a widespread version of MS Windows.