Ping from the Firefox Address Bar

Here's a cool little tip to ping nodes from another website -- which helps figure out if they are really down or if it is just your connection.

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s

Now, if you add a bookmark for that in FF and set the keyword to 'ping', all you have to do is 'ping {host}' in the address bar!

Network Utilities: Ping Servers from the Firefox Address Bar