Alternative to ping

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I want to see if an Amazon EC2 instance is open, but by default Amazon EC2 blocks ping requests. There is a way to do this by changing the security policy of the instance. Excluding that, what would be the closest alternative to "see if a server is responsive" and is lightweight?
Apr 14, 2022 in Linux Administration by Rahul
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