Determining availability of a remote machine

[Kim Holburn]

At 7:50 AM +1000 03/4/2, Michael Still wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I need to be able to determine if a remote machine is available without
>living through a long timeout. For network configuration reasons I can't
>use ICMP.
>
>Anyone have a brilliant idea as to how to determine if a machine is alive
>in code without using ICMP? I thought of just connecting to a port, but I
>can't gaurantee that certain ports are open on the remote side, and
>firewalls might get in my way.

paratrace or lft

>
>Thanks,
>Mikal
>
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