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ping

ping Requests that a ping be sent to all other nodes, to measure ping time. Results provided in getpeerinfo, pingtime and pingwait fields are decimal seconds. Ping command is handled in queue with all other commands, so it measures processing backlog, not just network ping. Result: null (json null) Examples: > bitcoin-cli ping > curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "ping", "params": []}' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Signature

ping() → any

Code samples

curl --user "$RPC_USER:$RPC_PASS" \
  --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"docs","method":"ping","params":[]}' \
  -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
  http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Parameters

No parameters.

Result

Type:  any

null (json null)

Source: services/core-node/bcore/src/rpc/net.cpp:79

C++ symbol: ping