The problem of timeout

In this section, we will explore a potential improvement to be made to our ping test application: timeout handling. Timeouts typically occur when the server takes an unusually long time to process a specific request, and the connection between the server and its client is terminated.

In the context of a ping test application, we will be implementing a customized threshold for the timeout. Recall that a ping test is used to determine whether specific servers are still responsive, so we can specify in our program that, if a request takes more than our timeout threshold for the server to response, we will categorize that specific server with a timeout.