1 Aug
2004
1 Aug
'04
03:12
On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:56 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Ping is the way to tell if the net is up or down for some particular entity. You can even ping microsoft.
Hi, I don't think so. ICMP is blocked by many corporate firewalls. Telnet is definetely more reliable for this type of check (checking websites). telnet hostname 80 and if you get an answer you know it's working. Jorge