AcademyTerminal Tactics: Survival in the ShellPhase 4: Deep Net (Networking)

Lesson 5: The Digital Postman (Networking)

Servers need to talk to each other. Understanding basic networking is what separates a "user" from a "DevOps Engineer".

Essential Networking Tools

  • ip addr: Shows your network interfaces and IP addresses.
  • ping: Checks if another server is "awake".
  • curl: Downloads content from the web (essential for APIs).
booting...

Mission Objective

Check if this container has internet access by pinging a public server.


Mission Control

Find your internal IP address

Expected Command

hostname -I

Ping Google to test connectivity