built-in ping functionality?

[Ron]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> Alexander Stirzel <alexander.stirzel at daimlerchrysler.com> writes:
> 
>> I wonder if there's a built-in ping function available in some Python
>> module. I didn't find anything in the module descriptions.
> 
> Nope.  There's one here:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/~jhylton/python.html
> 
> but it might be a bit old now (I've never used it).

Unfortunately, http://www.python.org/~jhylton/ping.tar.gz  does not exist 
at this time...