Use OCS Ping on systems you own, administer, or have permission to diagnose. Technical limits exist to protect users, third parties and the service itself.
1. Permitted use
You may use OCS Ping for ordinary connectivity checks, DNS troubleshooting, certificate inspection, HTTP diagnostics, speed measurements, public routing/ASN lookups and limited TCP-port verification where you have a legitimate purpose and appropriate authorization.
2. Prohibited use
You must not use OCS Ping for unauthorized or intrusive scanning, vulnerability exploitation, denial-of-service activity, service disruption, credential attacks, harassment, evasion of access controls, bulk automated probing, collection of data from third-party systems without a lawful basis, or any activity that is unlawful or reasonably likely to harm another person, network or service.
3. No circumvention
You must not bypass, disable, rotate around, automate around, or otherwise circumvent rate limits, temporary blocks, request tokens, bandwidth limits, destination restrictions, private-address protections or other safeguards. Opening multiple tabs, using automated clients, proxy rotation or similar techniques to defeat those safeguards is prohibited.
4. Port and connection checks
Port checks are intentionally limited and are not designed to provide unrestricted port-range scanning. OCS Ping may restrict the number of ports per request, requests per destination and requests per visitor. Private, loopback, link-local, reserved and other non-public destinations may be blocked.
5. Speed-test use
Speed tests transfer real data and consume server and network resources. OCS Ping may limit concurrent tests, tests per time window and transferred bytes per visitor. Automated or continuous speed testing is not permitted without the Operator's written authorization.
6. Enforcement
OCS Ping may throttle, reject or temporarily block requests when safeguards are triggered or activity appears abusive. Repeated violations may result in longer restrictions. Safeguards may change as traffic patterns and operational risks change.
7. Third-party rights
A public IP address or domain being reachable from the internet does not imply permission to test it. You are responsible for obtaining any authorization required by the owner, operator, provider or applicable law.
8. Relationship to other terms
This Acceptable Use Policy forms part of the Terms of Use. The Privacy Policy explains security and anti-abuse processing associated with operating these safeguards.
Effective date: September 16, 2026 · Version: 1.6
