Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 08/31/07 11:48

Carl Vondrick wrote:
> Albright.Brian@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm not even sure if PHP is the correct tool to do this for...but I'm
>> wondering how difficult it would be to write something for my webpage
>> that just tells if my file server is up or down (assuming either they
>> are on the same network, or the server had a static IP).
> Use PHP to ping it. If there's no response within 100ms, it's down. :)
>
> Carl
OTOH a respsonse to ping doesn't mean its up, either..

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