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Is there any command to ping a computer, or translate domain name to ip address in ssh?

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To literally answer their question: No their isn't. SSH is just another application/protocol. It is like you are asking whether your email application can open MS Word documents... Maybe you have to learn first what SSH is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell – Felix Oct 18 '10 at 20:13

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"ping" and "nslookup" assuming the machine you've SSH'd to has them installed:

you@yourhost:~$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (173.194.37.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lhr14s02-in-f104.1e100.net (173.194.37.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=27.8 ms
64 bytes from lhr14s02-in-f104.1e100.net (173.194.37.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=27.1 ms

you@yourhost:~$ nslookup www.google.com
Server:     192.168.1.1
Address:    192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.google.com  canonical name = www.l.google.com.
Name:   www.l.google.com
Address: 173.194.37.104
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Did you mean you are logged in and you want to ping a server?

You can find the ping binary in : 

/bin/ping google.fr
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You can use which to see where the programs are that you want to use.

$ which ping
/sbin/ping

$ /sbin/ping google.com
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