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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Testing if a host is up
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.041439.1038@Think.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 91 04:14:39 GMT
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In article <529@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>I need a way to put a test ahead of the FTP that will determine whether
>or not the other host is "up".
>Here is what I have so far:

># hostup - Written 01/30/91 by Chris Rende
[Script omitted]

Except for the exact text of the message printed, the ping command does
exactly what your shell script does.  It returns 0 status if the host is
up, and non-zero when the host is down.

This is on SunOS 4.0.3.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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