# Basic Ansible Ping Module Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [March 18, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/basic-ansible-ping-module-question/24008 "2017-03-18T20:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jerewrig12345](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@jerewrig12345](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jerewrig12345)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/basic-ansible-ping-module-question/24008/1 "2017-03-18T20:08:57Z")
I’m just learning the Ansible basics in my lab. I have an Ansible VM that can’t ping my virtual router. I have purposely shutdown the router interface for testing. Even though the router is down, the Ansible ping module makes it appear as if it is up. I thought this was designed to quickly check if my hosts were reachable via ssh but I could be wrong. What is this module really doing? Yes I’m new to this so apologies in advance for the basic questions. Thanks! **@ubuntu** : **~/jw-ansible** $ ansible --version ansible 2.2.1.0 config file = /home/jeremywright/jw-ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = [‘/usr/share/ansible’] **jeremywright@ubuntu** : **~/jw-ansible** $ ping 192.168.7.56 PING 192.168.7.56 (192.168.7.56) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C — 192.168.7.56 ping statistics — 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2010ms **jeremywright@ubuntu** : **~/jw-ansible** $ ansible -i hosts 1000v -m ping 192.168.7.56 | SUCCESS =\> { “changed”: false, “ping”: “pong” } ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dick\_Davies](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Davies)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/basic-ansible-ping-module-question/24008/2 "2017-03-20T08:38:07Z")
Ansibles ping: task checks the host is 'manageable' - that login works, python is recent enough and can generate json. If the host is unreachable that sounds unlikely. Can you SSH to it?