The Story About Ping

“Ping! I love that duck!”

The Story about Ping is “The tale of a little duck alone on the Yangtze River”.

Or is it?

Scroll further down the page to the reviews, and you’ll see that it is actually a “deft allegory” and “an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities”

I revisited this little gem to show a chap at work, and it made me chortle.