Pinging from ASP

[Michael42]

How can I ping an IP number or DNS from ASP and return the results of whether it was sucessful or not?

Thanks for your time!

 

[khazmir]

Trying using a component such as AspPing (

http://www.serverobjects.com/products.htm#aspping)

or DSPing Pro (

http://www.donia.com/products.htm#DSPing).

 

[Michael42]

These components look realy good. Thanks. I may end up opting for them.

Is there anyway you can "detect" if a web page is available using native ASP?

Thanks again!

 

[khazmir]

Here's a script I got from ASPFAQ.com:

<% Response.Buffer = true %>
<%
url = &quot;

http://www.espn.com&quot;

Set objWShell = CreateObject(&quot;WScript.Shell&quot
Set objCmd = objWShell.Exec(&quot;ping &quot; & url)
strPResult = objCmd.StdOut.Readall()
set objCmd = nothing: Set objWShell = nothing

strStatus = &quot;offline&quot;
if InStr(strPResult,&quot;TTL=&quot>0 then strStatus = &quot;online&quot;

response.write url & &quot; is &quot; & strStatus
response.write &quot;.<br>&quot; & replace(strPResult,vbCrLf,&quot;<br>&quot
%>

There are also scripts for XP and .NET on this page,

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2033.

Hope this helps!