Remote Server Status

[Thom Little]

What is the best way to determine if a remote server is available?

HTTP server.
Mail Server

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Thom Little www.tlanet.net Thom Little Associates, Ltd.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

What is the best way to determine if a remote server is available?

HTTP server.
Mail Server

Request any page from the HTTP server.

Connect to the SMTP server. Maybe even attempt to send an email.

Arne

 

[Thom Little]

Thank you both for getting me "off the dime" and pointed in the right
direction.

I have been playing with Ping for the last few hours and it seems to do
everything that I need.

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Thom Little www.tlanet.net Thom Little Associates, Ltd.

 

[Thom Little]

Is it safe to assume that all HTTP servers will respond to a Ping? Windows?
Unix?

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Thom Little www.tlanet.net Thom Little Associates, Ltd.

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Is it safe to assume that all HTTP servers will respond to a Ping? Windows?
Unix?

No, it's not, the only sure way to know if a service (server) is available, is by connecting
to it's service port(s).

Willy.

 

[Thom Little]

I took your advice and testing the connection to port 80 on each server.

Thanks for the help.

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Thom Little www.tlanet.net Thom Little Associates, Ltd.