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Re: [PHP-DEV] Can we have a "PING" function? From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/02/01

Do most servers and OS's (for example Windows) support the sending of a UDP
package to the echo port?

Andi

At 12:39 AM 4/2/2001 -0400, Dave Crawford wrote:
>Before I ask for a PING function in a future build of PHP, is there a
>way to ping a remote host using the existing PHP functions or modules?
>
>Based on my knowledge gained from various sources and php.net's online
>functional reference, there does not appear to be much support for LWP
>anything.
>
>I would like to know how to do, or perhaps you can build a function
>in a future release that can do basically the same thing as outlined in the
>following document for a similar function in Perl:
>http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/lib/Net/Ping.html
>
>When my site was all html and Perl, I used this function to ping all of my
>mirror download sites, and I coloured the ping value based on a range
>(Ex: less than 150ms was green, greater than 600ms was red, etc.)
>
>I need a way to incorperate this same functionality into my new all PHP
>based website.
>
>Thanks.
>-Dave
>
>
>
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