Posted by Andy Hassall on 12/17/05 13:59

On 17 Dec 2005 00:53:32 -0800, "yawnmoth" <terra1024@yahoo.com> wrote:

>If fsockopen is used to connect to a computer that's turned off, it
>takes $timeout seconds. Is there any way to detect whether or not a
>computer is turned off without taking $timeout seconds?

Not really. How would you tell the difference between the machine being off,
or it just being a slow connection? The symptoms are the same - no response
received within x seconds, except if you waited longer and the machine is on,
you might get a response.

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