How to ping in Python?

[Michael Schneider]

Les,

I only ping internal machines.  You are right about shutting down ports.

When we disable telent, we also disable ping.  Many people may not though,

good luck,
Mike

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote:

> Michael Schneider wrote:
>
>> I telnet to port 13 (returns time)
>>
> The problem is that most modern up-to-date servers use firewalls. They 
> only open the ports that are absolutely necessary. Usually the time 
> service is part of inetd, which is disabled by default, on most of the 
> servers. PING ICMP may work, but sometimes it does not either. In the 
> worst case, all port are closed and you have no way to tell if there 
> is a computer or not.
>
> Can you tell more about what kind of server do you need to "ping"?
>
> Example: if you need to know if a web server is alive, you should 
> connect to port 80 (http). If the connection was successful, you can 
> close the connection immeditelly. You can expect a HTTP server to open 
> the HTTP port, but all other ports may be closed.
>
>   Les
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